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A painting of Aphra Behn as a young woman. She has light brown hair which is pinned up using what look like pearl pins. She wears a red dress and looks outwards towards the viewer.

A painting of Aphra Behn as a young woman. She has light brown hair which is pinned up using what look like pearl pins. She wears a red dress and looks outwards towards the viewer.

Abolition and Commodity: Aphra Behn and the Black Body

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Jun 17 min read

The page features a dramatic portrait of Crowley in a dark hood, several staged ritual images, and illustrations of robed figures and an altar, surrounded by dense columns of text in a highly tabloid layout.

The page features a dramatic portrait of Crowley in a dark hood, several staged ritual images, and illustrations of robed figures and an altar, surrounded by dense columns of text in a highly tabloid layout.

Novels that Built Modern Occultism

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Jun 18 min read

A black and white, grotesque caricature of the character Mr Punch. He is depicted entirely naked with an exaggeratedly large nose and chin. Riding a donkey, he holds his phallus in hand. A woman in a simple dress stands behind the donkey with her arms wrapped around Mr Punch’s waist.

A black and white, grotesque caricature of the character Mr Punch. He is depicted entirely naked with an exaggeratedly large nose and chin. Riding a donkey, he holds his phallus in hand. A woman in a simple dress stands behind the donkey with her arms wrapped around Mr Punch’s waist.

Stripped Bare: The Caricature Assassination of Mr Punch in Private Eye

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Jun 19 min read

Portraits of three men: on the left, an engraving of Thomas Middleton in an oval frame in which he is draped in a heavy dark material and wearing a wreath of laurel around his forehead. Below him is text reading ‘Vera Effigies: Tho: Midletoni Gent’; in the centre, a painting of Ben Jonson in black clothing with a white collar, whose bearded face stands out against the dark background; on the right an engraving of George Chapman in an oval frame who sports a beard and wavy hair. Below Chapman is text in both Latin and Greek.

Portraits of three men: on the left, an engraving of Thomas Middleton in an oval frame in which he is draped in a heavy dark material and wearing a wreath of laurel around his forehead. Below him is text reading ‘Vera Effigies: Tho: Midletoni Gent’; in the centre, a painting of Ben Jonson in black clothing with a white collar, whose bearded face stands out against the dark background; on the right an engraving of George Chapman in an oval frame who sports a beard and wavy hair. Below Chapman is text in both Latin and Greek.

How Profane were Shakespeare and his Peers?

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Jun 19 min read

The Witch and Her Cow-Sucking Bag: Saving Souls in the Fourteenth Century

The Witch and Her Cow-Sucking Bag: Saving Souls in the Fourteenth Century

The Witch and Her Cow-Sucking Bag: Saving Souls in the Fourteenth Century

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Mar 19 min read

Medieval Literature and Society: A Tutorial for Historians

Medieval Literature and Society: A Tutorial for Historians

Medieval Literature and Society: A Tutorial for Historians

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Dec 1, 202510 min read

Heritage and Museum Picks

Heritage and Museum Picks

Heritage and Museum Picks

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Sep 1, 202510 min read

Review: Margaret Renn’s Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

Review: Margaret Renn’s Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

Review: Margaret Renn’s Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

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Sep 1, 20254 min read

LHPC 2025 Recap: Thirty Years of LHPC

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Sep 1, 20255 min read

Letter From The Editors

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Jun 1, 20253 min read

Landscape and Women: Can politics hold a legitimate voice in nature writing?

Landscape and Women: Can politics hold a legitimate voice in nature writing?

Landscape and Women: Can politics hold a legitimate voice in nature writing?

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Jun 1, 20258 min read

Queer Periodicals in the First Czechoslovak Republic

Queer Periodicals in the First Czechoslovak Republic

Queer Periodicals in the First Czechoslovak Republic

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Jun 1, 20257 min read

Memories of Inuit and Norse Contact in Greenland

Memories of Inuit and Norse Contact in Greenland

Memories of Inuit and Norse Contact in Greenland

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Jun 1, 20258 min read

EPOCH Tutorials - Reading Resistance: A Practical Guide to Working with The National Archives Ancient Petitions Collection (SC 8)

EPOCH Tutorials - Reading Resistance: A Practical Guide to Working with The National Archives Ancient Petitions Collection (SC 8)

EPOCH Tutorials - Reading Resistance: A Practical Guide to Working with The National Archives Ancient Petitions Collection (SC 8)

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May 19, 20253 min read

What Are A Few More Words? Historical parallels where you least expect them

What Are A Few More Words? Historical parallels where you least expect them

What Are A Few More Words? Historical parallels where you least expect them

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Mar 1, 20258 min read

The Fear of Being Buried Alive in Nineteenth-century Europe

The Fear of Being Buried Alive in Nineteenth-century Europe

The Fear of Being Buried Alive in Nineteenth-century Europe

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Dec 1, 20246 min read

Review: Darren Freebury-Jones’s Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers

Review: Darren Freebury-Jones’s Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers

Review: Darren Freebury-Jones’s Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers

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Dec 1, 20247 min read

The Unorthodox Knighting of Amaury de Montfort, 1213

The Unorthodox Knighting of Amaury de Montfort, 1213

The Unorthodox Knighting of Amaury de Montfort, 1213

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Dec 1, 20248 min read

A Northern Perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1295-1346

A Northern Perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1295-1346

A Northern Perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1295-1346

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Sep 1, 20249 min read

Eating Your Enemies in the Middle Ages and Today

Eating Your Enemies in the Middle Ages and Today

Eating Your Enemies in the Middle Ages and Today

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Jun 1, 20247 min read

Interview: Ina Christova, Author of The Fabergé Girl

Interview: Ina Christova, Author of The Fabergé Girl

Interview: Ina Christova, Author of The Fabergé Girl

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Jun 1, 20245 min read

Dune and the History of the Future

Dune and the History of the Future

Dune and the History of the Future

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Jun 1, 20244 min read

Joseph Hall – The First Opponent of Early Modern Travel Culture

Joseph Hall – The First Opponent of Early Modern Travel Culture

Joseph Hall – The First Opponent of Early Modern Travel Culture

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Dec 1, 20237 min read

Shangri-La: A Case of Myth-taken Identity

Shangri-La: A Case of Myth-taken Identity

Shangri-La: A Case of Myth-taken Identity

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Dec 1, 202310 min read

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