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John Ford, the Famous Director of Westerns
I love those good old films, and I love those good old westerns with John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dean Martin, James Steward, Gary Cooper and with Maureen O'Hara. Actually I watched one of those films a few days ago on German Cable TV. The original title is "Cheyenne Autumn" and it has been made in 1963. It was the last western John Ford directed, and having watched it I wanted to know more about him. In this lens I present three of his westerns; two of them (Stagecoach and The Se… »
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Northwest History: JSTOR is Not Our Friend; or, What Should a New Public History Journal Look Like?
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Schools to hold 1 minute silence in memory of the Great Famine – SchoolDays.ie: Parents, Teachers, Schools & Education in Ireland
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A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States | Reviews in History
The main theme of this book is American environmentalism and the development of the modern environmental movement. Starting with the standard narrative for the development of this movement, Chad Montrie lays out in chronological order how it is
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How to Make History of Science Interesting: Part I | Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chemistry can be a dirty business—just ask Isaac Newton. He begins one of his alchemical recipes with “Take of Urin one Barrel.” He then instructs the person with the newly acquired barrel of urine to let it ferment for three months in the summer. Neighbors back then must have been a less litigious bunch.
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Darwin and Huxley on accommodationism « Why Evolution Is True
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From the Darwin Correspondence Project via Thony Christie and Matthew Cobb, we have an exchange between Charles Darwin and an anxious believer, desperate to understand how she can comport evolution with her faith.
Mary Boole of London wrote Darwin in 1866, seven years after the publication of The Origin:
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Will you excuse my venturing to ask you a question to which no one’s answer but your own would be quite satisfactory to me.
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Is Newton’s Explanation of Gravity a Hypothesis? – Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand
Kirsten Walsh writes… In the General Scholium to Book 3 of Principia, Newton wrote: “Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.” He went on to explain that such a cause would be a [...]
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A play about astronomer Caroline Herschel sets the record straight | John Vidal | Science | guardian.co.uk
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The history books are full of William Herschel’s achievements, but say little about his sister. Stella tells a different story
One of the least expected successes in London’s West End last week was Stella by the Take the Space theatre company. The three actors wore their own clothes, hadn’t learned any lines, and there were only about 20 people in the invited audience who met in a circular room high above the Aldwych.
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Weird shit in historic newspapers: Best Served Cold
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Loretta Hannigan, aged 19, accused Solomon Mann of "having caused her ruin" and also accused Dr Henry Pettingill of "having performed a criminal operation upon her." Ms Hannigan subsequently died, although not of criminal malpractice, according to the court. But this did not satisfy David Hannigan, who vowed vengeance. Two months later, Hannigan shot Mann twice, intending to kill him. The assailant was "crazed with anger and range" and he escaped the custody of a police officer but was brought … »
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What is LGBT(Q) History and where do we stand? History Postgraduates and LGBT History | Institute of Historical Research
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Guy Ribes: The forger making a good impression in the film world – News – Art – The Independent
He was a master-forger jailed for faking Renoir paintings in a multi-million-pound scam that duped the art world for years. Now, having served his time, Guy Ribes has returned to his old trade – this time with a different aim.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch lived from 1415 to 1560 in the Netherlands and was an Early Netherlandish painter. His paintings are examples of the Northern Renaissance which began at the same time as the Italian Renaissance but differed very much from it. You will see that for yourself if you compare Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings with those of Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo.
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Mobster’s widow confirms husband gave art to ‘friend’ – Metro – The Boston Globe
The widow of a Mafia associate from Maine, whose home the FBI searched three years ago as part of the investigation into the Gardner Museum heist, told authorities that she saw her husband give a painting to the Connecticut man who has become the latest person of interest in the notorious theft, the Globe has confirmed through several sources. The information was the basis for the recent thorough searches of the man’s home, according to his lawyer.
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British Art Quiz
How well do you know British art? Whether creating portraits of the Royal family and other notable citizens, majestic landscapes and historic scenes, or the beautiful imagery of the Pre-Raphaelites, many British painters have left their mark on the art world. How well do you know their work, and recognize the brushstrokes and styles of one British artist from the next? This quiz presents 20 well-known works of British art through the centuries, from the 16th century through modern times. Your m… »
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Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian – George Gustav Heye Center, New York
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian is a spectacular, permanent exhibition of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central, and South America. This exhibition will demonstrate the breadth of the National Museum of the American Indian’s renowned collection and highlight the historic importance of many of these iconic objects.
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Getty Research Institute launches free online search gateway to the world’s art libraries
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Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian – George Gustav Heye Center, New York
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian is a spectacular, permanent exhibition of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central, and South America. This exhibition will demonstrate the breadth of the National Museum of the American Indian’s renowned collection and highlight the historic importance of many of these iconic objects.
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Coffee at Tim Hortons with Bill Cronon | Stillwater Historians
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When I got home today the latest issue of Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA) was shoved into my mailbox along with a Tim Hortons coupon flyer and a Hannaford grocery store circular. I almost didn’t notice Perspectives hiding amongst the junk mail. Ever since Bill Cronon became president of AHA I have taken to reading the “From the President” section, somet… »
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An Abstract View of Conferences « DanskinWithHistory
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Abstract: This post will aim to solve all of your conferencing woes, and simultaneously all bad things in the world. It will do so with great effectiveness, so effective in fact that you won’t even need to read the words; these will be magic non-reading words that leap into your brain. World starvation will be obliterated on completion of reading this post; peace will be restored; and everyone who reads this will pass their PhD viva with no corrections. Ultimately this post will solve all world »
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Important Rules to Remember When Learning Ancient Greek Part 1 « GraecoMuse
There are many reasons why one may study ancient Greek and Koine Greek; as a student of the classics, archaeology, new testament studies, pure interest, but when we learn a new language we are ofte…
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Ancient Sites of Cilicia, Anatolia: Part 1 « GraecoMuse
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Hello Everyone, this post is going to be a little different from the informative posts I usually write because I am excited! Not long now and I am off on my next archaeological dig, this time to Turkey!!! Friends keep telling me to blog as I go so I guess I will, so welcome to [...]
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International Values and Global Science, 1880-1939 | Institute of Historical Research
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Turnip Rail’s Waiting Room: In the event of a passenger being drunk and disorderly…. 1889
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U.S. Intellectual History: Reading List: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History
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As I mentioned before, I am in the process of putting together my reading lists for qualifying exams. My three fields are American Intellectual and Cultural History, American Literature, and Transatlantic History in the Long Nineteenth Century. I am still working on my lists for the latter two fields, but my reading list for U.S. intellectual/cultural history is settled. I thought it might be helpful for our blog readers who may be planning a field in U.S. intellectual history to see what my »
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AHA Today: Hiring: AHA Assistant Editor, Web Content and Social Media
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@Westylish’s Blog: "When the leader came to power" – Hinge Question based Introduction to Nazi Germany
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Diagram showing the anatomy of the abdomen of a dead female foetus (1698). #histmed #histsci http://t.co/RX5WBDrJ
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Call for submissions | 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (The University of Manchester)
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Body of Evidence: Proving Infanticide in Early Modern England « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
Drawing depicting the skeleton of a child from Dutch anatomical text (1690). In 1624, Parliament passed an act that made murdering or concealing the death of an illegitimate child illegal. It st…
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Dissecting the Living: Vivisection in Early Modern England « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832. From the Wellcome Library, London. In 1664, Robert Hooke—a pioneering member of the Royal…
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Chez Jim: Jim Chevallier’s Web Site
Chez Jim, Jim Chevallier’s Web Site – A cornucopia of a panoply of a bouquet of words, images, history and the distant yet insistence aroma of breads…. Among the subjects: books, bread history, creative writing, translations, free monologues, bullying, wine history, the Bastille, how to Cook a Peacock, Anthimus’ De Observatione Ciborum, The Monologue Bin, Suicide Monologues, articles, reviews, pictures of Paris, Wilhoite, Demarquet, Richcreek and Chevallier genealogy, Film Funding information…
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‘The Deadly Nevergreen’: Public Hangings at Tyburn « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
They called it ‘the deadly nevergreen’, the tree which bore fruit all year long. The scaffold at Tyburn consisted of three posts—each ten to twelve feet high—held together by three wooden c…
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Books of Human Flesh: The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
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Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook [left], no longer than the length of a man’s hand. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. To the untrained eye, it is altogether unremarkable in its appearance. However, upon closer inspection, the words ‘EXECUTED 28 JAN 1829’ and ‘BURKE’S SKIN POCKET BOOK’ come into focus, revealing the item’s true origins.
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Kingston’s new and largest Art Gallery and Museum with over 13,000 works of art in the permanent collection. Includes paintings, sculptures by major Canadian artists, European old master paintings, Inuit prints and sculpture, antique silver and glass, heritage quilts and costumes, European graphics (Renaissance to 20th century), and African art. Eight galleries, an art studio, gallery shop, art rental and sales, and facility rentals.
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Grave Matters: The Body-Snatchers Unearthed « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
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It is half past two in the morning on October 10th, 1777. The new moon casts a bluish light over St George’s burial ground off Hanover Square in London. Two men, clad in dark clothes, enter the cemetery. They have been tipped off by the grave-digger who accompanies them that the body of Mrs. Jane Sainsbury was buried earlier that day.
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501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest FilmmakersReview | Universal Studios Florida Tickets
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What David Lynch Can Do With a 100-Year-Old Camera and 52 Seconds of Film | Open Culture
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In 1995, 41 respected filmmakers got a shot at using the first motion picture camera, the Lumière brothers’ cinématographe. Rather, they got more than a shot, but often not much more: each of these icons of world cinema had to make do with a single, 52-second roll of film. Whether you were Spike Lee, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, Merchant & Ivory, or Peter Greenaway, the rules remained the same: no additional film, no synchronized sound, and no more than three takes. This large, indirect collabora… »
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Suzanna’s diary ~ about filming ‘Swallows and Amazons’ in 1973 | sophieneville
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Suzanna Hamilton as Susan with Sophie Neville as Titty busy writing the ship’s log
Something very exciting happened last week. Suzanna Hamilton came to see me, bringing the photographs that she was given during the filming of Swallows and Amazons along with a bundle of papers. I immediately recognised the blue bound diary that she had kept. Her God-given sense of humour fills the pages.
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Discover Churchill: The Power of Words | June 8, 2012 – September 23, 2012
Discover Churchill: The Power of Words. A joint exhibition between the Churchill Archives Centrehoused at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, and the Morgan. June 8, 2012 – September 23, 2012
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Confederate Success in the Shenandoah Offset by the Loss of Norfolk | That a Nation Might Live
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Confederate successes in the Shenandoah Valley continued with Stonewall Jackson’s victory at McDowell, while Union General George McClellan’s advance up the Virginia peninsula led to the Confederate evacuation of Norfolk and the scuttling of the C.S.S. Virginia.
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Giant’s Shoulders #46 – Providentia
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant’s Shoulders, the monthly blog carnival devoted to the history of science. With that mind, let’s turn to the numerous and diverse contributions that have been made to this latest edition. Classified according to the different sciences they represent, we have:
Anatomy and Medicine
A big hat tip to Thony Christie who contributed numerous suggested posts for addition to this carnival. One of these posts is from the EvoAnth blog and shows the first e… »
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This Day in Science History – May 13 – Ronald Ross
Malaria has been a problem for people for all of history. It usually causes symptoms a lot like flu, fevers, chills and nausea–even causing death. The term malaria or mal …
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thinkingaboutobjects | Artisanal Alphabet: An A-Z of Craft
This post is in part inspired by the Critical Craft Forum’s session at this year’s CAA conference, where a panel of craft theorists were asked to choose one or two words in response to the question ‘What is Contemporary about Craft?’ This was no mean feat, and the rich, and often contradictory, variety of responses prompted my own reflections on the challenge of capturing the condition of craft today. Inspired by a wonderful set of speakers at a small symposium I recently co-organised on Ideas »
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$7.7B in contaminated sites a legacy of weak oversight – Politics – CBC News
Federally owned contaminated sites will cost the government billions of dollars to clean up, according to the 2012 report of Canada’s environment commissioner.
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Coffee at Tim Hortons with Bill Cronon | Stillwater Historians
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When I got home today the latest issue of Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA) was shoved into my mailbox along with a Tim Hortons coupon flyer and a Hannaford grocery store circular. I almost didn’t notice Perspectives hiding amongst the junk mail. Ever since Bill Cronon became president of AHA I have taken to reading the “From the President” section, somet… »
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JSTOR: Current Anthropology, Vol. 53, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 226-244
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May 11, 1922: US Forest Service heeds call of nature « Peeling Back the Bark
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On this date in 1922, the Agricultural Appropriations Act of May 11 made the first appropriation for the improvement of public campgrounds in national forests. The bill made special reference to the protection of public health and the prevention of forest fires. The U.S. Forest Service received $10,000. What’s most surprising about that amount is that’s what the agency actually suggested it needed in the chief’s annual report the year before—and then they actually received it!
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JSTOR: Current Anthropology, Vol. 53, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 226-244
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Universal Vaccination is a Perennial Struggle | Blogs | Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
Recent campaigns to extend vaccination to developing nations sound a lot like 19th-century efforts in Pennsylvania to vaccinate poor children.
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This Day in Science History – May 12 – Dorothy Hodgkin
May 12th is Dorothy Hodgkin’s birthday. Hodgkin was the British chemist who developed three dimensional x-ray crystallography. X-ray crystallography involved growing a crystal of the sample you wished to investigate, …
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Lessons from history: why science policy needs to better understand the past « Testing hypotheses…
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There is an understandable focus on the future in science policy discussions. We are often concerned with how investment in science and other research will contribute to future economic growth, health and well-being, and sustainable development. How should we invest now to bring about the future we want to see? What types of science should we support? How should that science be conducted? But the evidence that we draw upon is often about the past. What has been the result of previous investme… »
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The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden
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Covent Garden around 1970. Four years before its move to Nine Elms in Vauxhall
The London premiere for the film of My Fair Lady took place at the Warner cinema in Leicester Square on 21 January 1965. Of course it couldn’t have been anything less than a glamorous occasion. Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, Rex Harrison, who had come with Vivien Leigh, and even Jack Warner himself attended the show. The cinema was only a few hundred yards from Covent Garden, a location featured in the film (albeit a … »
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A Visit to the Tower of London Zoo in 1827 | caroline shenton
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By the early 1830s, many people thought that Parliament should move away from Westminster to the West End. Part of the reason was that John Nash’s development of Regent Street had shifted the fashionable focus of the City north-west. One of the trendy delights in the former Marylebone Fields was the new Zoological Gardens at Regent’s Park. Until 1832, the royal [...]
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Cameron Fenton: Harper Government Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Environmental groups in Canada are in the crosshairs of the government, and are under investigation for fiscal mismanagement. But what about groups like the Fraser Institute, which uses foreign money to feed misinformation to children, undermine national and global climate action and block shifts away from the most carbon-intensive energy on earth?
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12 May 2012
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Bloggers Fair: Charlotte E. Mathieson’s research and teaching blogs | Journal of Victorian Culture Online
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- Lucinda Matthews-Jones
My Research Blog draws together reflections, reviews and discussion relating to my research on travel and place in mid-19th century literature. I write about recent reading, events and talks I’ve attended, and ideas that I’ve been working on in my research, as well as reflecting on contemporary cultural news and events relating to the Victorian period – the Dickens bicentenary has provided a lot of material this year, but I also write about film adaptations, radio and tv series, and other insta… »
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11 May 2012
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Cautionary tales for aspiring species, or the bad beast’s book of blunders
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- Emma Davidson
Thus is entitled probably my favourite archival item ever – a little booklet of poems written mainly by John Maynard Smith FRS. According to the title page, this was “presented to Professor J.B.S. Haldane on Guy Fawkes Day, 1952”, and it has just been re-discovered by a visiting student archivist amongst a collection of correspondence.
The contents of the booklet are as follows:
STRUTHIOMIMUS or, The Folly of Being Too Clever.
ANOMALUS OBSCURUS or, The Perils of Parthenogenesis.
THE BUL… »
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11 May 2012
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Books of Human Flesh: The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
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- The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook [left], no longer than the length of a man’s hand. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. To the untrained eye, it is altogether unremarkable in its appearance. However, upon closer inspection, the words ‘EXECUTED 28 JAN 1829’ and ‘BURKE’S SKIN POCKET BOOK’ come into focus, revealing the item’s true origins.
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11 May 2012
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