John Milton and a page from Holinshed's Chronicles preserving Milton's censorship of a lewd anecdote

John Milton's notes identified in an influential book he once owned

15 May 2024

John Milton鈥檚 handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. 探花直播discovery, made by a team including Cambridge's Prof. Jason Scott-Warren, includes a rare example of prudish censorship.

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People doing yoga together outdoors in Richmond USA in 2015

Reclaim 鈥榳ellness鈥 from the rich and famous, and restore its political radicalism, new book argues

28 March 2024

A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither narcissistic nor self-indulgent, and nor did its practice involve buying expensive, on-trend luxury products. Instead, wellness emphasised social well-being just as much as it focused on the needs of the individual. Wellness practitioners thought of self-care as a way of empowering people to prioritise their health so that they could also enhance the well-being of those around them.

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