Stories
- Article
Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
- Article
Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
- Article
Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
- In pictures
Moles’ feet, dried frogs and other folk medicines
Early-20th-century folklorist Edward Lovett made it his mission to discover the nation’s beliefs and superstitions, collecting amulets from cottage cupboards up and down the country.
Catalogue
- Audio
Belief. Part 1, Richard Dawkins.
Date: 2004- Books
Belief in God in an age of science / John Polkinghorne.
Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-2021.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
Belief in psychology : a study in the ontology of mind / Jay L. Garfield.
Garfield, Jay L., 1955-Date: [1988], ©1988- Archives and manuscripts
Thesis Work Files: "Sexuality, Motherhood and Belief among Jamaican Women"
Date: 1960sReference: PP/KZR/C/3/1Part of: The archive of Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0005954: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Belief in Creation by a High God"
Date: 29 December 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/49/55Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive