#archival-discovery

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Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Iris Murdoch's poems on bisexuality to be published read one exclusively here

Previously unpublished poems by Iris Murdoch reveal her bisexuality and intimate life across nearly 60 years, offering autobiographical insight.
Books
fromInsideHook
1 week ago

Lost Jack Kerouac Story Discovered in Gangster's Archive

A previously-unpublished Jack Kerouac short story was found among crime boss Paul Castellano's possessions and later sold to Your Own Museum.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Gillian Tindall obituary

Books bridged fiction, memoir and history, revealing how hidden pasts shape places and people through micro-history, archival discoveries, and layered local narratives.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Cooking With the Dead: To Die For' tries out recipes etched on tombstones

Who'd have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? But that's just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., learned about this recipe on a gravestone back in 2021,
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History
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

Secrets of a Radical Duke

A large ceremonial parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence—the Sussex Declaration—was discovered in West Sussex, implying British transatlantic connections to American independence.
Law
fromThe Washington Post
5 months ago

In Harvard's archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta

A rare original of the Magna Carta was discovered at Harvard Law School, previously misidentified as a copy.
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