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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
A work of magenta-coloured imagination: Jeanette Winterson's 'The Daylight Gate'
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Sunday, August 05, 2012
“I have a light within that directs me to renounce my husband”: the unnatural practices of Elizabeth Pigeon.
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Lawrence Stone territory this posting, with A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Meheta...
Monday, July 16, 2012
The (very slow) downfall of the upstart chymist
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These are the rather surprisingly good woodcuts for The devil upon Dun: or The downfall of the upstart chymist: being the s...
Sunday, June 24, 2012
“After this they fell all to dancing the Hays, about three flower-pots”: welcoming the apocalypse in Berkshire, 1650.
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My text is a Thomason tract. Only ‘…ber’ for the month appears in his title page dating, it was perhaps September, certainly the 20 ...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Executing all the enemies of a Utopian England: John Dunton's 'The Informer's Doom', 1683
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These curious woodcuts derive from and expand on the familiar woodcut frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’ The Discovery of Witche...
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