The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/blogAn online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.
Entries
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Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...
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Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
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A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
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Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
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Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock char...
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Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.
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Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.
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Diagrams from a lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
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Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915)...
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69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.
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Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
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A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.
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Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Soil.
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Legal infographics that reflect a Turkish nation in flux.
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In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the ...
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Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.
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Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.
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Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
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Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Al...
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A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.