Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science — The Public Domain Review
Mayer patiently introduces children to many of the cutting-edge principles and theories of sound that were circulating in the late nineteenth century, covering topics such as reflection, transmission, vibration, and…
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“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s *Lolly Willowes* (1926) — The Public Domain Review
And so, Laura becomes “Aunt Lolly”, a caretaker for the younger children, accompanying them on seaside holidays, even though she’d rather “go by herself for long walks inland and find…
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PDR's Halloween Reader
This Halloween week, a devilish dive into our archives to unearth some supernatural treats… Source link
Read more »Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association — The Public Domain Review
The yarn was a good match for the fairytale-themed masked ball hosted by the Jung-München artists’ association during the 1862 Carnival. The invited milieu, including the Bavarian Court, future “fairy…
Read more »Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley — The Public Domain Review
Appraisals of Beardsley have also fluctuated over time. In 1894, he was celebrated as the founding art editor of the trailblazing periodical The Yellow Book. 1894 also saw the controversial…
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Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season – 2025
The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th. Source link
Read more »Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia, “the gospel of the witches”, containing a goddess-orientated creation and saviour narrative, purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition of witchcraft in…
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New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! — The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is registered in the UK as a Community Interest Company (#11386184), a category of company which exists primarily to benefit a community or with a view…
Read more »Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell? Source link
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Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting — The Public Domain Review
Both quasi-encyclopedic and essentially aesthetic, early collector’s cabinets maintained no real line between the natural and the unnatural, the secular and the religious. Insofar as an organizing principle existed, it…
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