Notes from an Everything Historian Substack by Dr Surekha Davies

Notes from an Everything Historian

About the Substack

Science, art, culture, food, monsters and their histories.

About Dr Surekha Davies

Historian of science, art and ideas. Wrote award-winning RENAISSANCE ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters. Writing HUMANS: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, spring 2025). www.surekhadavies.org

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