HN user

Petiver

10,832 karma

He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."

Posts610
Comments1
View on HN
www.historytoday.com 7d ago

The Legend of the Gibbet

Petiver
3pts0
www.theguardian.com 1mo ago

Swift, Gay and Pope's season in the sun

Petiver
3pts0
drb.ie 1mo ago

Reinventing the Renaissance

Petiver
41pts11
literaryreview.co.uk 1mo ago

Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons

Petiver
6pts0
www.historytoday.com 2mo ago

Voting Before the Secret Ballot

Petiver
1pts0
en.wikipedia.org 2mo ago

Cordouan Lighthouse

Petiver
38pts6
www.historytoday.com 3mo ago

William Cecil's Succession Plan

Petiver
8pts0
aeon.co 3mo ago

Living Without My Self

Petiver
1pts0
orionmagazine.org 3mo ago

An Aroma Most Beguiling

Petiver
2pts0
quillette.com 3mo ago

The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

Petiver
25pts11
www.historytoday.com 4mo ago

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

Petiver
77pts15
publicdomainreview.org 4mo ago

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

Petiver
28pts7
www.lrb.co.uk 4mo ago

Heart, head, life, fate

Petiver
19pts6
www.historytoday.com 5mo ago

A History of Haggis (2019)

Petiver
38pts16
www.theguardian.com 6mo ago

The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?

Petiver
1pts1
en.wikipedia.org 7mo ago

Horace Fletcher

Petiver
1pts0
publicdomainreview.org 7mo ago

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

Petiver
11pts0
newrepublic.com 7mo ago

A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

Petiver
3pts0
en.wikipedia.org 7mo ago

Cat Gap

Petiver
216pts59
www.historynewsnetwork.org 7mo ago

A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson

Petiver
42pts121
publicdomainreview.org 8mo ago

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Petiver
52pts10
publicdomainreview.org 8mo ago

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

Petiver
18pts6
nautil.us 8mo ago

Seeking Signs of Life on Venus

Petiver
3pts0
daily.jstor.org 9mo ago

Enchanting Imposters

Petiver
33pts1
daily.jstor.org 9mo ago

Enchanting Imposters

Petiver
8pts1
www.historytoday.com 9mo ago

Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War

Petiver
2pts0
www.woman-of-letters.com 10mo ago

Lonely Island Adventures

Petiver
3pts0
www.wsj.com 10mo ago

The Rise of 'Conspiracy Physics'

Petiver
2pts1
www.nytimes.com 10mo ago

Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs' Most Fearsome Predators

Petiver
3pts0
www.bostonreview.net 11mo ago

Creatures Apart: Shulamith Firestone's portraits of madness

Petiver
3pts0