The 10 best audiobooks of 2024. Sample them yourself.
Here, culled from the many thousands of audiobooks released this year, are 10 of the very best of 2024: a broad range of ...
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19th-century book due back to Worcester Public Library in 1973 is returned
The returned book, titled "The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley," was authored by a prominent English illustrator associated with the Aesthetic Movement of the late 19th century. Beardsley's ...
Appreciating WA photos, and photographers, from the 19th century
HOW MANY TIMES have you aimed your smartphone to capture a face, a meal, a repair project, a pleasing scene? Every year, ...
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This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum In 1864, a book called Spectropia set out ... witchcraft—is once more prevalent in this 19th century, under the contemptible forms of spirit-rapping ...
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Welsh and 19th century education
The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history ... The report eventually became known as the Treachery of the Blue Books - 'blue' from the colour of the reports covers and 'treachery ...
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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the ...
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Naomi Wolf: US publisher cancels book release after accuracy concerns
Dr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other ... executed for having homosexual sex during the 19th Century. "I don't think you're right about this ...