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Part 3: "The Stone Witnesses Today: What Survives”5 days

Thank you to Andrei for this wonderful conclusion to his series on Portugal’s Padrões. If you haven’t already, please read parts one and

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A Stitch in the Side3 weeks

“Midshipman Blockhead, Master B on the Middle Watch, cold blows the wind & the rain’s coming on” by George Cruikshank, June 1820/July 1821. (Royal Museums Greenwich, pu4723; low-resolution image in the public domain.)

Despite the preponderance of headline diseases such as scurvy, the Age of Sail witnessed a multitude of muc...

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Mapping the Ropewalk: A Vanished Building Type Online4 weeks

Christy Anderson is a professor at the University of Toronto, jointly in Art History and the Daniels Faculty of Architecture. These days she works on ships as architecture, including the ropewalks that rigged the world’s fleets. Her current project, Age of Rope, follows these buildings and their workers across the early modern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

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