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Alas, Poor Dodo!
Imagine the poor creature, minding its own business on the island of Mauritius for countless millennia, and then wiped out in the course of the seventeenth century, apparently because of human intervention in a previously uninhabited island. Not only were … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Life Science, Travel and Exploration, Uncategorized
Tagged dodo, extinct birds, Hugh Strickland, Mauritius
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A List of Book Published in 1815
Many bloggers, tweeters, newspaper columnists and other date nerds have already produced handy lists of the anniversaries coming up in 2015. The Big Two are of course the octocentenary of Magna Carta (sealed (not signed!) by King John on 15 … Continue reading
Posted in Art and architecture, History, Mathematical Sciences, Travel and Exploration, Uncategorized
Tagged 1215, 1815, Magna Carta, Napoleon, Waterloo, Wellington
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The Boar’s Head
I’ve already mentioned this year’s Christmas offering from the Cambridge Library Collection: Songs of the Nativity, compiled by William Henry Husk and published in 1864. The first of the secular carols (described as ‘Festive Carols and Songs’) in the book … Continue reading
The Manticore, and Other Animals
Emma Phipson is an author we have struggled with, not because of her detailed and comprehensive 1883 work on The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish and Insects, but because in writing the blurbs for one of … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction and poetry, Literary Studies, Travel and Exploration, Uncategorized
Tagged animal lore, bestiary, folklore, Shakespeare
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Ebenezer Cobham Brewer’s Unconsidered Trifles
Better known as Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, this fascinating brick of a work was first published in 1870, and its nineteenth edition in 2013. You will not be surprised to learn that our reissue is of the first … Continue reading
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