V.M. Braganza
WRITER | PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
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A Forgotten Play by Louisa May Alcott
‘The history we inherit is actually a series of choices and value judgments’
In 1880, the grief-stricken author of Little Women sat down and wrote a play that would be all but forgotten for the next 150 years.
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A few years ago, I found that play--a dramatization of Jules Verne's novel Michael Strogoff--in a box at Harvard's Houghton Library. Read about it in the Boston Globe's profile of my detective adventures!
The Famous Forgery...That Wasn't.
A rare, treasured Harvard book, with ties to a hidden Elizabethan writer, famously condemned as a fake--but was it?
Click here to come with me on the adventure of the Case of the Forgery...That Wasn't!
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
DECIPHERED
For nineteen years, Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned by her cousin and rival, Queen Elizabeth I, and wrote messages in secret symbols called ciphers.
Come on a journey with me for my 2022 Harvard Horizons talk as I decipher the writings of the Scottish Queen.
DECODING THE DEFIANCE OF HENRY VIII'S FIRST WIFE
The New York Times covers my breakthrough decoding of a ciphered pendant designed for Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII. Read the full article here.
© Tom Jamieson for the New York Times