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British Online Archives is a primary source publisher specialising in the humanities and social sciences | History | IR | Politics
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If you were to recreate an Egyptian painting or an illuminated manuscript, what colors would you choose? Here are our insights on the 19th-century replicas we've been looking into. Have a look: it is more nuanced than you might think! mdpi.com/2908008 via Heritage MDPI
Nice illustration of a Purple-shot copper butterfly, Lycaena alciphron ssp. gordius. From Bernhard Gerhard, ‘Versuch einer Monographie der europäischen Schmetterlingsarten …’ (Hamburg, 1853). S391.b.85.7 Cambridge University Library
Melinda Haunton According to the ND’s sources, eating lupin seeds may either occasion death (Hoffman) or be very wholesome (Galen) - good to know… #JacobinDay
New contextual essay for our recently published collection, Pandemics, Society, and Public Health, 1517–1925. Sandra Hempel explores how British understandings of cholera developed throughout the nineteenth century. buff.ly/4g7CV9W