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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Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.
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A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.
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A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.
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Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.
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Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and e...
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A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.
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A WWII propaganda film narrated as an "auto"-biography
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Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine wi...
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Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.
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Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.
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The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.
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Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share...
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From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.
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In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castle...
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Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque.
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Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.
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First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
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Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention.
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Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
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French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.