A Most Faire Frost: Frost Fairs of the River Thames
Trigger warning: Post contains brief mentions of historical animal cruelty and death (animal and people), including drowning, blood sports, and ...
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Locks of the Lilly: Examples of hair in the Lilly Library
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry showcases some the Lilly Library’s famous and lesser-known hairy materials! Raising awareness for men’s ... -
Lessons in Latrinalia
It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing ... -
A Little Dictionary of Obscenities
Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in ... -
Amazing Adventures at the Lilly: Celebrating the World Premiere of the Kavalier and Clay Opera at IU
Teaching and outreach assistant Maggie McDonald makes some magic in the stacks in celebration of the world premiere of The ... -
BOOkplates: Macabre Marks of Ownership
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry calls forth spooky bookplates from the great beyond (the stacks of the Lilly Library), ... -
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part II)
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora, again! ... -
Artist, (Genius), Human: Exploring Drafts of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s ... -
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part I)
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But ... -
The Box of Lost Tales: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings
Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know him for the iconic 1981 fantasy film, Excalibur. Many ...