Notes from an Everything Historian

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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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