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This day my oaths of drinking wine and going to plays are out, and so I do resolve to take a liberty to-day, and then to fall to them again. To the King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummer's Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
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I Have Wedded Fyve: The Wife of Bath, a Biography

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Prince of Caricatura

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Libro de Los Juegos

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The Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter’s Story

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Chaucer on Trial

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Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)

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Are We Prisoners of Geography?

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The Invention of Free Love

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Out it goes: The difficulty of being John constable

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Pro Bono Publico: Publicans, Punch, and Print in Eighteenth-Century London

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Winter and Its Discontents

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Walking streetlamps for hire in seventeenth-century London

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The Thoughtful Prick: On Casanova

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John le Carré's private life, revealed in letters and a kiss-and-tell

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The courtroom drama, executions, and pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’

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What Influence has the BBC had on History?

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‘Status and Culture’ Review: Making the Cut

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E. Nesbit used grief, politics, imagination to make a new kind of book for kids

newyorker.com·28 pts·pepys·
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Review of An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford

theguardian.com·11 pts·pepys·
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How the Little Ice Age Changed History (2019)

newyorker.com·11 pts·pepys·
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Death of a Master Forger

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Ciphers and sympathetic ink: secret love letters in the Granville papers (2020)

blogs.bl.uk·6 pts·pepys·
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Rate the Room: The early history of rating credit in America

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Sexual Behaviour Then and Now

the-tls.co.uk·22 pts·pepys·
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Filling the Gaps: Notes in the margins of early modern books

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Imagining utopia–and condemning excess–during the Enlightenment

laphamsquarterly.org·32 pts·pepys·
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Now Be Still: Dispatching Shakespeare’s Bodies

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Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker Review – A Dive into the Anglo-Saxon Year

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