Stories
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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An animated almanac for the modern world
Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.
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The enigma of the medieval folding almanac
With its combination of rich, portable data and high-end style, this folding almanac could have been the medieval equivalent of the latest iPhone.
- In pictures
Following the maker’s path into the lost art of medieval embroidery
Textile maker Jacqui Carey unravels the mysteries of medieval embroidery by recreating the materials and techniques for herself, with the help of clues left by the original makers.
Catalogue
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Almanacs of the United States / [Milton Drake].
Drake, Milton, 1912-2006.Date: 1962- Books
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The free-Mason's calendar, for the year 1788, Being Bissextile, or Leap-Year: Containing, Besides the usual Matter in other Almanacs, a great Variety of Articles concerning Published for the benefit of the Charity-Fund, under the sanction of the Grand Lodge of England.
Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England.Date: [1788]- Books
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The connecticut pocket almanac, for the year of our Lord 1800: Being The Twenty-Fourth Of The Independence Of The United States. Containing, besides every necessary Astronomical Calculation, the Lawyer's and Justice's Calendar for the New-England States, and a greater variety of useful and entertaining matter than is commonly sound in Almanacs of this size. The calculations by Nehemiah Strong, Late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College.
Strong, Nehemiah, 1729-1807.Date: [1799]- Books
A handlist of almanacs in the Guildhall Library.
Guildhall Library (London, England)Date: 1956- Books
America and her almanacs : wit, wisdom, & weather, 1639-1970 / by Robb Sagendorph.
Sagendorph, Robb Hansell.Date: [1970]