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A thieves' lexicon for 18th-century London
This is a repost of a fun piece I put together in March 2025. I thought of it because I had the privilege of welcoming the great doyen of English slang, Jonathon Green, to the Writer’s Bookshelf recently.
And than again because I’m workin...
The writer’s bookshelf: Ian Duhig
Ian Duhig is an award-winning poet and short-story writer. He is the author of numerous collections including The Lammas Hireling, The Blind Roadmaker and, most recently, An Arbitrary Lightbulb.
Ian’s New and Selected Poems won the Hawthor...
Review: Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring by Graeme Rigby
A satisfyingly eccentric exploration of the herring’s place in history and culture
Not many encyclopaedias have a hero. This one does: the Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus, which makes the longest migrations of all its brethren, touching...
The writer's bookshelf: Cosima Clara Gillhammer
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Cosima Clara Gillhammer is a writer and academic based at Oxford University, where she is a Career Development Fellow in Old and Middle English at Lady Margaret Hall. Her work focuses on t...
Microhistories #17: Mongkut, the Siamese philosopher king killed by an eclipse
The other side of the man immortalised in The King and I
When his father, Rama II, died in 1824, the Siamese throne was taken by Mongkut’s older half-brother, who ruled as Rama III. Mongkut himself, aged nineteen, joined a monastery. This...
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