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- ‘Never trust a 19th-century male medic who is excessively interested in obs and gynae.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the notorious Dr Crippen, who murdered his wife in 1910 and was caught by telegraph: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Simeon Koole asks what we can learn from tactility itself: how did people decide who could touch whom – and when and where – and who was allowed to do the deciding?’ @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry. King Charles is a private landlord. John Lewis is a private landlord. The homelessness charity St Mungo’s is a private landlord. So are many MPs and doctors.’ Jack Shenker on the UK’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Egyptologists have often argued that the ancient Egyptians were not a maritime people. But recent evidence tells a different story.’ Robert Cioffi on how the ‘Red Sea Scrolls’ are changing our understanding of the building of the pyramids: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as opposed to demonstrations and marches, which remain generally permitted, subject to certain regulations?’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on protest encampments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
- ‘Janet Frame found herself stuck in a psychiatric system that took her feeling for language as evidence of madness. When she compared herself to Pierre in “War and Peace”, her doctors thought she was describing a schizophrenic delusion.’ @lucieelven.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’ Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘As a means of equitably sheltering citizens from harm, an asset-based welfare project that depends on ever rising property values is useless.’ Jack Shenker on the UK’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Universities cannot legitimately make “content-based speech restrictions”. And yet there is still an educational argument for universities to tolerate encampments.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
- ‘He read voraciously but fitfully, often preferring shlock from railway stalls to the Great Books he claimed to revere.’ @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on the prolific writings of WIlliam Morris: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
