The Dunmow Flitch of Bacon

“For this is the custom of Dunmow, well known. Though the pleasure be ours, the bacon’s your own.”

By Robert Chambers

An Earthquake: England. Dover Straits. 1382.

By Robert Chambers

Shakespeare and Cervantes: What Similarities Between the Famous Writers Reveal About Authorship

By Alfonso Martín Jiménez, Universidad de Valladolid

Twelve Day Eve

By Robert Chambers

Josiah Wedgwood

By Robert Chambers

Ringing Out the Old Year

By Robert Chambers

A Description of a City Shower

By Jonathan Swift

Christmas Games: Snapdragon

By Robert Chambers

A backlash against ‘mixed’ foods led to the demise of a classic American dish

By Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University