The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that ...

May 13, 2025 - The Public Domain Review is an online journal showcasing works which have entered the public domain. It was co-founded by Jonathan Gray and Adam Green. It was launched on January 1, 2011, to coincide with Public Domain Day. The Review aims to raise awareness of the public domain by promoting ...

Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

674K Followers, 318 Following, 4,336 Posts - The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev) on Instagram: "Celebrating public domain works. History of art, literature and ideas. More on the main site, including 300+ essays. Visit our online shop for prints."

The Public Domain Review. 188,762 likes · 13,644 talking about this. Online journal & cabinet of curiosities showcasing the most interesting & unusual out-of-copyright wo

The digitization of vast bodies of historical source material (books, archives, images), together with new technologies of access to those sources (the internet, search engines, text tools), has transformed the way we see, feel, read, and imagine what came before the present. The Public Domain Review was born in response to this new world…

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La Public Domain Review est une revue électronique attachée à l’Open Knowledge International (précédemment connu sous l’appellation Open Knowledge Foundation).

We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age

3 days ago - Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration and sharing of curious and compelling works from the history of literature, art and ideas. In particular, the focus is on showcasing digital copies of public domain works - ...

This is the YouTube channel of The Public Domain Review, an online journal and cabinet of curiosities dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web.

Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

November 8, 2019 - The Public Domain Review specializes in criticism as history, presenting readers with high-quality scans of artwork, archaic books, maps, hand-written journals, as well as early films and audio recordings and photographs — these little bits ...

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July 12, 2023 - 7 top articles from The Public Domain Review, as voted by our community.

November 14, 2023 - Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome.

My favourite essay so far is Julian Barnes account of when Guy de Maupassant called on monkey-loving Algernon Swinburne in France. Quite hilarious. Lesson: servants and monkeys do not mix. If you like your history offbeat – animals up before the beak, a woman who gave 'birth' to rabbits – you can't go wrong with this first selection of the best the Public Domain Review.

February 9, 2022 - As always, I'm interspersing this post with some lovely public domain images. I found these all through the Public Domain Review, which is also where I've found a lot of the images in previous years' posts. Happy Public Domain Day! As of today, works from 1926 have entered the public…

Read writing from Public Domain Review on Medium. Online journal and cabinet of curiosities dedicated to showcasing the most beautiful and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web.

February 4, 2020 - The Public Domain Review is a curio cabinet of wondrously strange artifacts of knowledge, or as they put it, an exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.