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Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult

Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

The Kept and the Killed (2022)

The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

A Thousand and One Nights in Italy

What will enter the public domain in 2026?

Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science

Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel

Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)

Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura

The Polyhedral Perspective

The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O'Followell (1908)

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