I was pleased to see a shelf of the DK Eyewitness children’s nonfiction series in a local bookstore; these were a fairly recent reissue, with CDs of clipart accompanying each book. (What a great feature for students who have to do reports and presentations!)
Topics of interest to readers of this blog will want to look […]

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I’m always forgetting which book had which article, which is dreadfully inconvenient when searching for a particular bit. And perhaps you’re as absent-minded as I am, when it comes to these sorts of things.
So, with that in mind, here’s a list of the articles in the “Medieval Clothing and Textiles” series, along with links to […]

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The Penguin Classics with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith are now available on Amazon — the series includes Cranford, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Wuthering Heights. (Design*Sponge recently posted an interview with the designer.)
While I realize that part of the […]

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Just noticed today that two of the long out-of-print books from the
Museum of London’s “Medieval Finds from Excavations in London” series are coming back into print as of next March!
The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 — which, personally, is my absolute favorite out of the series — covers a lot of the things that […]

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I saw a reference to this book earlier today, and thought it would make a good addition to the earlier list of new books (for holiday wishlists, or adding to one’s own library, etc.):
The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages — “Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color […]

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Several nifty new books coming out this autumn — along with some of the books that came out earlier this year — might just deserve a place on your holiday wishlist or on your bookshelf.
Since this blog’s readers have a lot of different sorts of interests, here’s some titles to consider and/or covet …

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