Category: blogs & websites
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British Library launches new book app
For those of you with an iPad, check out the British Library‘s new 19th Century Historical Collection app with access to classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science in the library’s collection. Currently the free app features over a thousand titles, but by summer it will have more than 60,000 works, all in the…
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Pre-Revolutionary photographs of Moscow now on Flickr
If you are interested in early 20th century Moscow, there is a collection of historic photographs recently posted on Flickr. These previously unpublished photographs were taken by the poster’s great grandfather while on a trip to the Russian city in 1909. The images are a part of cranewoods.com’s photostream and can be viewed by everyone;…
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Ara Pacis Augustae in pictures and words
Charles S. Rhyne, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Reed College, has created a new website dedicated to the visual and historiographical study of the ancient Roman monument Ara Pacis Augustae. In his preface, Professor Rhyne explains that the site’s objective is “to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis…