The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “resurrection men” and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards and their pestilent fumes.

In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of Rochetta Mattei, optimised for electrohomeopathic healing, and Castello di Sammezzano, an immersive, orientalist fever dream.

First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.

Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.

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Lantern slide of man battling bug.

A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?

What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotten history and (still living) world of mail-order magic.

A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.

An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.