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What Was the Domesday Book & How Was It Produced?
The Domesday Book ranks among the most important historical texts in English history. But what was it, and how did it come into being?
by Dan Bulman
thecollector.com/what-was-dome…
Domesday Book at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…
#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
S00E04. SCP-6001: Avalon
beforethefuture.space/podcast/…
#article #binti #cats #epistolary #fanfic #grief #incarceration #literature #novella #pacifism #phenomenology #pussy #queerTheory #rutherford #SCP #theWildRobot #visionStatements
So this is done? I'm tired!!
if you're in the UK/EU, print copies are going to be available...
Themes:
#Caribbean #puertorico #postcolonial #performanceart #photography #literature #afroindigenous
dm me if interested
Traditional #African tales of monsters, genies & malevolent spirits have been reworked in a new #Netflix series.
....retelling these folktales is an important part of cultural preservation & evolution, as .. oral traditions face extinction. Many #stories disappeared during the colonial period, when written western #literature was privileged & bans on vernacular languages, containing communities’ #cultures & #history were enforced"
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Blackfedi
theguardian.com/global-develop…
The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end droughtCaroline Kimeu (The Guardian)
is there an inventory online somewhere? I’d love to find a synopsis on each.
I’m also curious about who was writing about what and when, and who kept these books for so long. This is a fascinating glimpse into the past. If only books could talk!
(Coming soon to) #Amazon #Books #Literature
