Dirt Roads to Dreamland: 51 Trips to Area 51: the writer was visiting Area 51 before it was cool – and before the 1995 land grab of the main vantage points that made this secret base even more dangerous and difficult to access.
Brilliant Visions: Peyote among the Aesthetes: lest you think magic mushrooms were strictly a hippie thing, be advised that they also enjoyed a vogue with late 19th century artists and writers.
Manuscript Reveals How Medieval Nun, Joan of Leeds, Faked Her Own Death to Escape the Convent: what it says on the tin. And it’s thanks to the University of York’s Northern Way project that we’re aware of it, as they’re making the original manuscripts available online.