Natalie is the editor of My London Your London, an independent cultural guide featuring theatre, gallery and museum reviews, and also blogs at Philobiblon, on history, culture, Green politics and all things feminist. She's the founder of the Carnival of Feminists, and Managing Editor and Books Editor on Blogcritics.
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I had been reading about the wonderful 17th-century Mexican nun Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Friday femme fatales
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Have a good sniff
Aroma begins with an idea that pulled me up short: Smell is a cultural, hence a social and historical, phenomenon.
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History Carnival No 4
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Postcard history
There's a sense of pathos, but also fascination, in a tiny insight into a moment in the lives of people of which you otherwise know, and probably can know, nothing.
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Literary resurrection
I'm a Dorothy L Sayers fan, so when Sharon on Early Modern Notes mentioned a new Harriet Vane novel, I was on Amazon in a flash.
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Thomas Burke's London
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Not about Mona's smile
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The joy of the carnival
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