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Cartographies of Time: A Gorgeous Visual History of the Timeline

How do you illustrate time? These remarkable illustrations answer the question beautifully ...

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A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

Fontaine's 239 fables are a composite blend of Western and Eastern stories adapted into French free verse ...

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Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Hand-coloured engravings from Johann Bayer's star atlas 'Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum' ...

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Revisiting the French Werewolf Epidemic and the Beast of Gévaudan

The period between roughly 1520 and 1630 saw “France’s version of Europe’s witch trials and executions, but with werewolves ...

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Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

"I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn't have any agenda. There ...

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The Story Of ‘Punk’

The rotten etymology of Punk - a word used to describe music for centuries ...

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All Good Things From Stephen Ellcock – A Book Of Visual Delights

Stephen Ellcock's brilliant book shows us all the things we should see in a sparkling ride through the ages filled with visual wonder ...

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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...

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The Celestial Archive Advent Calendar

Conceived , compiled and designed by Stephen Ellcock and Hugh Hales-Tooke, the Celestial Archive ...

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Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

In 1633 Chinese printer Hu Zhengyan used the douban technique to produce what is ...

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‘Darkness Will Appear on the Face of the Abyss’: The Art of Alchemical Teachings (1500 – 1825)

"Darkness will appear on the face of the Abyss; Night, Saturn and the Antimony ...

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Sex, Slavery And A Father’s Rotting Corpse: The Secret of Diary William Byrd II, Gentlemen And Planter (1907 – 1912)

"September 3rd 1709 … I ate roast chicken for dinner. In the afternoon I beat Jenny for throwing water on the couch" ...

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