November 20, 2019
Marriage (Market Price)
A history of using daughters as currency, from ancient Greece to the Stuart monarchy.
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November 20, 2019
A history of using daughters as currency, from ancient Greece to the Stuart monarchy.
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How Sherlock Holmes’ home went from a fictional setting to a reality for readers.
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How scientists and writers responded to the Lisbon earthquake in 1755.
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X-rays, ancient footprints, and Elizabeth Bishop’s house.
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On the medieval era’s obsession with unknowable innards.
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On the possibilities that a group of British writers found on campus.
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On books worth revisiting, a priestess of pure fire, and the Berlin Wall.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.