Cozy up with PEOPLE's picks for the best new books of November 2023 From murder in 18th-century Maine to the perks and perils of growing up royal — here are PEOPLE's picks for the best new books ...

It was in the 18th century that the reading number of people began to increase which ... For example, Swift’s book ‘Conduct of Allies’ and Price’s book ‘Observation on the nature of ...

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This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: 6.This 18th century machine that let researchers read up to eight open books at once: ...

Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in “heroic couplets.” Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used ...

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What followed was 16 submissions, grounded in racialist pseudoscience, speculating about what made people ... new book, “Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter From the Eighteenth-Century ...