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Quarantine in the Northwest: The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Measures to Stop the... 30 Mar

Dashed Off V 20 Mar

New Poem Draft and Three Poem Re-Drafts 12 Mar

“Not to trust the said boy out of his sight” 16 Mar

Prix Marianne Roland Michel 18 Mar

Strelets-r French grenadiers (Early war) 17 Mar

New volume: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 13 Mar

New Book: Beresford, “Sacred Skin” 3 Mar

Sunday 3 March 1666/67 3 Mar

Friday 15 March 1666/67 15 Mar

Lent XIX 30 Mar

New Book: Domínguez, “Radicals in Exile” 3 Mar

Another article – Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship 25 Mar

Monday 4 March 1666/67 4 Mar

“Heard the oration pronounced, by Coll. Hancock”

On 12 March, Revolutionary Spaces’ Old South Meeting House will host a program devoted to Dr. Joseph Warren’s 1775 oration on the Boston Massacre.With...

Boston 1775 • 10 Mar 2020

Women in Alchemy

Antonio Neri, 1598-1600,MS Ferguson 67, f. 25r.It is certain that women have participated in the practice of alchemy since its beginnings, but hard documentation...

Conciatore • 18 Mar 2020

Trinity Fine Art Offers Ricci’s Lapiths and Centaurs at TEFAF

Sebastiano Ricci, The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs, early eighteenth century, oil on canvas, 63 × 76 cm (Offered at TEFAF Maastricht 2020...

Enfilade • 2 Mar 2020

Dianora Parenti

Agnolo di Cosimo 'Bronzino',"Portrait of Florentine Noblewoman"(subject unknown , circa. 1540).The mother of Antonio Neri, the 17th century glassmaker...

Conciatore • 27 Mar 2020

Workshop | Nobility without Limits? Prussian Identities, 1525 –1795

Johann Hennenberger: Stemmata genealogica praecipuarum in Prussia Familiarum Nobilium, Ende 16. Jh., Seite der Familie Dohna (Detail), public domain: http://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=3096 ...

Enfilade • 7 Mar 2020

Ethics and Reasoning VI (Aristotle)

III. Virtue EthicsAs consequentialism treats consequence-based reasoning as the fundamental form of moral reasoning and deontology treats obligation-based...

Siris • 13 Mar 2020

The Covenanters and Their Graves Part 3 #History #Scotland

Where did the inscriptions on the Covenanter gravestones of the Killing Times come from? What source of information did they use? To answer those questions...

Jardine's Book of Martyrs • 17 Mar 2020

Meringues – To Make Lemmon (or Chocolett) Puffs

Quite a few recipes are labeled “puffs” in seventeenth and eighteenth-century recipe books. Last month, I was (wistfully) looking through the...

Cooking in the Archives • 2 Mar 2020

Thomas Edison's Lady Glassblowers

Fig. 1. Sealing the Glass Socket andCarbon Filament into the Flask of an Incandescent Lamp."We will next turn to the glass-blowing department, wherehundreds...

Conciatore • 4 Mar 2020

More Like Lions Than Men-Sir William Brereton and the Cheshire Army of Parliament,...

This is a superbly written, researched and beautifully illustrated book. It follows the military exploits of Sir William Brereton and the Cheshire army...

A Trumpet of Sedition • 28 Mar 2020

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