Family Strategies and Nuns without Vocation
An excerpt from Nuns: A History of Convent Life by Silvia Evangelisti.
An excerpt from Nuns: A History of Convent Life by Silvia Evangelisti.
An excerpt from Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr.
What Cassie has been reading this week.
Can an ancient disease be linked to cannibalism?
The answer to yesterday’s riddle.
Watch Owen Davies talk about his book Grimoires: A History of Magic Books.
Can you solve the riddle?
An excerpt from Design in the USA by Jeffrey L. Meikle.
Elvin Lim looks at 80’s nostalgia.
On this day in history…
The top ten propaganda messages of the last century.
OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here. Below is a brief excerpt from the piece. “…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain […]
An excerpt from Tokyo: A Cultural History.
Mark Peters looks at all the variations of the snowclone “set phasers to x” on Twitter.
A selection of tennis-related words of wisdom from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Can birds keep a beat?