Academic Alexa Neale shares informal research notes on courtroom models, miniatures and forensic reconstructions, including the 'rejects' from her searches that do not fit her main project. Readers get historical context on Frances Glessner Lee's Nutshell Studies, dollhouse miniatures and the role of scale models in legal evidence, alongside commentary on search and AI.
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Long-form essays on the history of innovation and the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, drawing on archival research. Recent issues cover the salt trade, Scotland's outsized role in invention, and Tudor labour laws and trade.
A Substack of comic literary and historical writing, including modernized retellings of classics like Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods, rankings of oddities such as London livery company mottos, and curated archival finds like children's Rorschach responses. Readers get witty, erudite essays and humor pieces, with occasional housekeeping notes about subscription pricing.
Long-form essays on geopolitics, terrorism and history, with recent issues examining the Karabakh conflict, genocide recognition politics and the casualty figures of the 1915 Armenian catastrophe. Writing is footnoted and source-driven, interrogating how political actors establish and use historical narratives and numbers.
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