Stories by pepys

On Wolf Hall: Musings of a 'Historical Accuracy Expert'

Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox

Ethel Lang, the last Victorian, has died

A Digital Edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Why Are We Obsessed with the Great American Novel?

‘Rhythmical Essays on the Beard Question': Beard Haters in the 1860s

They're Watching You Read

Snapshots of the Romanovs, 1915-1916

The bizarre, Romantic, not-quite-scientific dinosaurs of B. W. Hawkins

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but also continually surprised

Geography of the Post: U.S. Post Offices in the Nineteenth-Century West

A Forgotten 19th-Century Photo Technology That Romanticized America

Chattering to babies may be even better than reading to them

Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it's communicated

The Woolcomber’s World: A life scribbled in the margins of almanacs

Stop Defending the Humanities

The Anti-Tolkien

A Newport Rhode Island Turtle Feast, 1767

Jay, Key Witness from 'Serial,' Tells Story for First Time

How two bloggers re-purpose centuries-old recipes for modern cooks

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