Stories
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
- Book extract
Solving the mystery of how to be happy
Crime writer Sophie Hannah thinks she might be too happy. Worried she’s using her happiness as an excuse to avoid a big work problem, she turns to a life coach for help.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Book Collecting in Britain in the 1930s
Date: 1973Reference: SB/4/1/55Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
- Online
Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen.
Findlen, PaulaDate: 1996- Books
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The Early years of Native American art history : the politics of scholarship and collecting / edited by Janet Catherine Berlo.
Date: [1992], ©1992- Journals
Interfaces between science & society : collecting experiences for good practice : international workshop. Book of Abstracts / edited by An̂gela Guimaraẽs Pereira, Merce ̀Aguëra Cabo, Silvio Funtowicz.
Date: 2003
- Pictures
- Online
The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1. Oct. 1797Reference: 39164i
