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Photograph: Sarah Angelina Acland, Aloe arborescens, circa 1909.
A New York Times piece on early color photography includes a mention of Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography, published in the US in November by the Bodleian Library.
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The Tradescants arguably did more to change the botanical and gastronomic landscape in England in the seventeenth century than anyone else. Both Tradescants spent their lives collecting new plants—through their own travels and by commissioning others to send or bring back specimens from abroad—and then growing or propagating those plants for their own use and for distribution.
From “The Natural World: The Tradescants’ Culinary Treasures” by Amy L. Tigner, in Gastronomic, Winter 2012
The Bodleian Library will publish The Tradescants’ Orchard, a collection of sixty-six watercolors by the Tradescants, in June 2013.
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17 Pieces of Dating Advice from the 1930s
Don’t imagine that any nice-minded girl is going to say “yes” to such a proposition as: “Well, what about a spot of double harness, old thing?”
Aren’t you glad you saw this before the weekend? For more vintage dating advice drawn from the Bodleian Library’s How to Be a Good Lover, check out the slideshow at the Huffington Post.
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Check out this slideshow from the Bodleian Library’s Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards—complete with detail on how to get the look—at the online weekly Mr. Porter. Menswear will publish in December in the US.
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SF Signal has an extensive list of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books to look forward to in September, including Brian Aldiss’s An Exile on Planet Earth, published by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; and Sherryl Vint’s Animal Alterity, new in paperback from Liverpool University Press.
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From Bicycling magazine’s Picture Perfect: Five Cycling Tomes to Grace Your Coffee Table:
“Before there was Instagram, people posed with their bicycles and exchanged the photos with family and friends. These 202 portraits, dating from 1903 to 1950, run the gamut from children showing off first bikes to a backward-trackstanding circus performer”
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Through August 31, the Bodleian Library is offering a 10% discount on these and many more. To see the rest of the list and for details on how to order, please download the order form.
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Jeremy Barlow, author of A Dance Through Time (forthcoming in September from the Bodleian Library), has identified five of the worst “dancefloor don’ts” for the current issue of Dance Gazette. Exhibitionism and grotesquery make the cut, as do:
Rudeness: It’s hard for a woman who refuses a request to dance, however repellent the man asking her. It’s a social minefield—but picking up your chair and dragging it across the floor, as in the 1804 engraving above, is going too far.
Clumsiness: Beware the wardrobe malfunction. Renaissance author Antonius Arena warns, ‘your codpiece must be well tied. We sometimes see codpieces slip to the ground.’
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Peter Whitfield, author of Travel: A Literary History, was interviewed by the New York Times. His book covers the long history of travel writing, from the Bible to Bruce Chatwin. -
This track has had 10 playsTravel: A Literary History by Peter Whitfield, published by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford by Peter WhitfieldOn this podcast, historian and map expert Peter Whitfield discusses his new book, Travel: A Literary History.
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Hope and Glory | A review of Illustrating Empire in the Wall Street Journal:
“The pervasive influence of the colonies on Britain’s visual culture during the 19th and 20th centuries is superbly documented in Illustrating Empire. It’s a browser’s book of delights and curiosities, from matchboxes, labels and theater bills to scarves, games, pamphlets, posters and even a brochure (at right) suggesting that you, too, could have a farm in Africa.”
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Total Politics designer Antonello Sticca examines the Bodleian Library’s new collection of conservative campaign posters through the ages.
