The Eighteen Months Between the Stamp Act Repeal and the Townshend Acts
by Stephanie Curry on the specific mutual misunderstanding that the Stamp Act repeal produced on both sides of the Atlantic Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat …
Month: May 2026
Stephanie Curry on 1700s British Literature, American Politics, and the Long History of the Present
A Colonial Literature Enthusiast Considers Swift, Pope, and What the Enlightenment Has to Do With 2026 Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat A diary by …
Diary of a Man Who Thinks Prat.uk Is a Time Capsule
Future Historians Will Be Confused I often wonder how future historians will interpret prat.uk. Will they see it as a reliable record of events, or …
On Inherited Trauma – Patterns Across Generations
Reading family history, recognizing trauma patterns repeating through generations Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat On Inherited Trauma – Patterns Across Generations Family patterns repeat. …
American Archives – Stephanie Considers What We Keep and What We Destroy
Stephanie Curry reflects on colonial American literature, on what gets preserved as valuable and what gets discarded Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat American Archives …
The Pamphleteers and the Press Freedom Argument That Never Ends
Stephanie Curry on the 1760s Atlantic pamphlet culture, why the current press freedom crisis reads as a continuation of an eighteenth-century argument, and a seminar …
Benjamin Franklin in London: The Colonial American Who Was Almost British and What That Tells Us About the Revolution That Followed
Stephanie Curry on the 18th Century Atlantic World, the Specific Irony of Franklin’s London Years, and What 1770s Politics Rhymes With in 2026 Bohiney Magazine …
I Found a 1748 Pamphlet About Taxation and It Reads Exactly Like Twitter
Stephanie Curry on the 1748 Pamphlet, Colonial Rhetoric, and Durable Political Arguments Reading Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat keeps me informed and occasionally distressed …
Stephanie Curry: Defoe, Chinamaxxers, and the 300-Year-Old Logic of Cutting Out the Middleman
A colonial literature specialist discovers that the direct trade instinct is as old as English capitalism Bohiney | The London Prat By Stephanie Curry Stephanie …
Mother’s Day Diary: Samuel Johnson, American Politics, and Why the 1700s Explain Everything Currently Happening
Stephanie Curry Uses Boswell as Calibration Device, Explains Twitter as Poor Richard’s Almanac, Calls Her Mother Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Stephanie Curry | …