Medieval illustrated manuscripts reveal how upper-class women managed healthy households – overseeing everything from purging, leeching and cupping to picking the right wet nurse
By Jennifer Borland
The Daily Amos, 26 May 2021
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My Brush with Ayn Rand
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Guide to the Classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By Joy McEntee, University of Adelaide
Guide to the Classics: The Great Gatsby
By Sascha Morrell, Monash University
The Occasional Eccentric Random Week in Review: Saturday 13 February 2021
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What Netflix’s Bridgerton Gets Right about Sex, Gossip, and Race in Regency London
By Madeleine Pelling, University of York
Life’s a TRip, Episode 14
Little British cars, coronavirus, college friends. Plus hoarders and face coverings and Lord of the Rings.
By Ojijaak.
Renia’s Diary: Memoir of a Young Polish Jew on the Verge of Adulthood as WWII Explodes Around Her
By Dan Stone, Royal Holloway
The Once and Future Foxglove: Patience. And a Reader.
By Michelle Railey