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Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company's curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that "most beautiful of God's creatures" which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes. …more
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from…more
Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how…more
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Said to be spawn of the devil himself and possessed with great…more
Robert Fludd’s alphabet of correspondences, where each letter and number is paired with an object which…more
A superb series of photographs found in exercise manual by American author…more
Hogarth’s pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than…more
Perhaps the closest thing the 19th century ever got to Google Street View, a book to…more
Born of the temperance movement, this poem dramatises the ills of drinking…more
Proto science fiction fantasy romance of an English castaway and a remote…more
Collection of stunning NASA satellite photography showing images of the ocean and the land from above.Read more
Illustrations of the native flowers of New Zealand by Sarah Featon (1848–1927), one of the country’s renowned botanical artists.Read more
Having gorged himself on Welsh Rarebit — melted cheese on toast — a man hallucinates his…more
First film by stop-motion animation pioneer Willis O’Brien who in 1933 would…more
Short educational film on what can be seen in the night sky…more
In this novelty recording by the Norwegian actor Henry Klauser, a mournful refrain gradually gives way…more
First known recording of the popular African American spiritual performed in 1909…more
Early recording of the alma mater of Rutgers, The State University of…more
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