#sundayreads — Public Fediverse posts

#SundayReads: @Gideon Leek on King Vidor's silent classic The Crowd (1928): https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-man-and-the-crowd

#SundayReads: Carlos Eire on the levitating troubles of 16th-century saint Teresa of Avila... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-reluctant-levitator/

#SundayReads: @kirstamb on the 19th-century Swiss artist Gottfried Mind, who was labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, but also the “The Raphael of Cats” due to his profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfried-mind-the-raphael-of-cats/ #cats

#SundayReads: Laura Kolb on Mary Carleton, the 17th-century woman accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure a young suitor into a bigamous marriage, a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess/ #longform

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#SundayReads: Iván Moure Pazos tours two outlandish Italian castles — the psychedelic chambers of Rochetta Mattei, optimised for electrohomeopathic healing, and Castello di Sammezzano, an immersive, orientalist fever dream: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/

#SundayReads: After the intro of gin to England, tipplers reported a range of effects: frenzy, madness, joy, and death. With the help of prints by George Cruikshank, William Hogarth, and others, James Brown explores the spaces in which it was consumed: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/liquid-bewitchment

#sinclairuser august 1986: Clive Sinclar is back to answer some questions

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#SundayReads — Vlad Solomon on populist forerunner Henri Rochefort, the self-described “errant journalist and literary poacher” who rose to power on the wings of sarcasm and ridicule to reshape France’s political landscape: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/henri-rochefort-and-the-origins-of-french-populism/

#SundayReads — @DemetraVg on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the strangest and most influential books of the quattrocento, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/hypnerotomachia-poliphili-and-the-architecture-of-dreams

#SundayReads — Steven Connor revisits Marie Corelli's The Life Everlasting (1911), where the recent discovery of radium shapes the mechanics of phantasmal machines and psychic forces able to pass through all impediments: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/radioactive-fictions

#sinclairuser , july 1983: how Mrs. Sims used a #zx81 to help her in her business

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#SundayReads: For more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a tango between the quick and the dead. @AllisonCMeier explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/our-mortal-waltz-the-dance-of-death-across-centuries

#SundayReads: In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/animal-vegetable-lamb/ @longreads

#SundayReads: Angela Vanhaelen tours the bawdy fountains, disorienting maze, and mechanical androids of a mysterious 17th-century Dutch pleasure park: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonder-and-pleasure-in-the-oude-doolhof-of-amsterdam #longform

#SundayReads: Tobiah Black on the history and afterlife of the Sanborn fire insurance maps: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps/

#SundayReads— “The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires”, in which Paulina L. Alberto searches for the life behind the legend of Raúl Grigera, a mysterious staple of Buenos Aires nightlife in the 1910s and 20s: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/raul-grigera-black-dandy-of-buenos-aires

#SundayReads: Jessica Riskin on the history of talking machines, from their origins in musical automata to inventors’ quixotic attempts to make androids pronounce words, converse, and declare their love: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech

#SundayReads: “Imagining an Idle Countess” in which Matthew Mullane revisits George Wightwick’s Romantic architectural world history The Palace of Architecture (1840) — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/imagining-an-idle-countess/

#SundayReads: @RihnAndrew on the racial rhetoric in Jack London’s coverage of the the Fight of the Century, between Jim Jeffries (the “Great White Hope”) and Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jack-london-jack-johnson-and-the-fight-of-the-century/

#SundayReads: @drmatthewgreen revisits the lost city of Dunwich, a once lively port that was taken by the sea: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-city-that-fell-off-a-cliff

#SundayReads — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-old-very-old-man/

#SundayReads: Beginning with a 14th-century king who believed he was made entirely of glass, Tamara Sanderson investigates the “glass delusion” — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility-the-glass-delusion-and-its-history/ #longreads

#SundayReads: “As Bright as a Feather”, in which Whitney Rakich examines the far-reaching ostrich industry through a peculiar do-it-yourself-style book: Alexander Paul’s The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer (1888) — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bright-as-a-feather/

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#SundayReads: Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origins of a pair of lurid “translations” from 1927 marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce

#SundayReads: Jennifer Manoukian recovers the cunning exploits of a forgotten 19th-century conman, whose initially honorable intentions quickly escalated into all-out fraud: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-princely-ploy

#SundayReads — “Windows Onto History”, in which Thom Sliwowski explores the defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997) and finds a national shibboleth imbued with ritual efficacy: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/windows-onto-history/ #longform

#SundayReads: @JenniferHiggie on the remarkable spirit paintings of Victorian artist and medium Georgiana Houghton: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-substantiality-of-spirit/

#SundayReads: Hugh Aldersey-Williams tours the sublime and mostly unrealized designs of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, discovering utopian ideals crafted in cubes, spheres, and pyramids: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/designing-the-sublime

#SundayReads: @HoooAW on Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)”, a lifelong calendrical project by the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain’s first phenologist — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar/