Stories
- Article
The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
List of documents relating to Jean Louis Rast-Maupas (1731-1821), silk-processor
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/7Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
List of works by Jean Baptiste Antoine Rast-Maupas (1732-1810), physician
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/5Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, John William (1790-1835), surgeon
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/16-17Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Bunsen, Robert (1811-1899), German chemist
Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.8802- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Jean Jacques Théophile Schloesing
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7576/4-8Part of: Schloesing, Jean Jacques Théophile (1824-1919), French analytical chemist, and his son Schloesing, Alphonse Thóphile (1856-1930), French agricultural chemists