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Winter Light and the Dry Tree, January 1462
Sometime in the 1460s, a painter in Bruges began to work on a tiny oak panel.
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Kant, and a Bro's Defence of Pure Reason: Why What is Taking us Back to the 'Dark Ages' is Unquestioning Sexism, not AI
Thoughts on Johannes de Weck in Today's Guardian
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A Winter Garden
On Friday I finished up in my last gardening job of 2025.
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Why Not Having a Baby is Hard Physical Work: Thoughts on IVF, Mary I, and Changing Laws
I sat down yesterday evening thinking I would write a really good Christmas post.
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A Seventeenth-Century Mother Preparing for Christmas: Brilliana Harley's Letters
On December 6th, 1639, a mother sat down to write to her son.
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Medieval Birth Charms and the Making of Maternal Communities
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about amulets.
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We are not the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn: why the myth of 'lost women's healing knowledge' needs to go.
It is Halloween, and I am seeing a whirl of posts about witches, so here’s a quick post.
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