Lessons from the Age of Coal (media.nesta.org.uk)
A 15th century French painting depicts an ancient stone tool (phys.org)
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro (www.thecollector.com)
Internet Artifacts: A History of the Internet (neal.fun)
Musashi Miyamoto: The Life of Japan's Legendary Swordsman (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Inside the Welsh punk scene of the 1980s (www.huckmag.com)
Go in the Devil’s Name: When Isobel Gowdie confessed to being a witch, she spun a subversive, magical tale for her interrogators. (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Colourful beauty of Parthenon marbles revealed in scientific analysis (www.theguardian.com)
Though the Parthenon marbles were admired for centuries for their stark white brilliance, it has long been known that the sculptures were originally brightly painted, before millennia of weathering, cannon bombardment, rough handling and overenthusiastic cleaning scoured them clean....
Monthly Review | Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization (monthlyreview.org)
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Why it pays to read for acrostics in the Classics | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Brown, John | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865 (civilwaronthewesternborder.org)
This motherfucker attacked a pro slavery group with a broadsword. Hardcore.
Students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests (phys.org)
That Fine-Sounding Language | Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain. (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate (acoup.blog)
Walking in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Mobilizing the Early Modern City (www.journals.uchicago.edu)
How a 16th century Italian anatomist came up with the word 'placenta': it reminded him of a cake (theconversation.com)
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain (dralun.wordpress.com)
The Daguerreotype’s Famous. Why Not the Calotype? - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
VÉgA – Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian (vega-vocabulaire-egyptien-ancien.fr)
The Meaning of Lore | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
youtu.be/1FQ9J_MK7N4?si=SXq9m5-X_i3MxFez
The pirate preservationists (reason.com)
Do Not Suffer Him to Become a Bigot | How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain. (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Historical Objects: The Bees of Childeric I (justhistoryposts.com)
