Robert Greer

Get in the Sea

Rediscovering the disappeared towns and settlements across Britain.

Sweet Dreams

Utopian ideas from an era that looked to the future with optimism.

The Sexuality of Slang

Laws prohibiting homosexuality helped create new languages of same-sex desire.

Booksellers along the banks of the Seine, Paris, Willem van de Poll, 1965. Nationaal Archief. Public Domain.

Don’t Judge an Olympia Press Book by its Cover

A Parisian pornographer who modernised literature with Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias concealed counter-cultural classics behind deceptively drab covers.

Shopping at the Temple of the Muses in a print by Rudolph Ackermann from 1809.

The Cheapest Bookstore in the World

How did bookselling develop from the preserve of the elite to the Amazon marketplace? It is due, in large part, to the actions of one man.

A Guide to Occult London

An introduction to some of the important figures, myths, and places in the city’s history.