Stories
- Article
Conserving Audrey
Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.
- 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.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
- Books
Adhesive compendium for conservation / written and compiled by Jane L. Down.
Lady MuckDate: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
Guardbooks (Scrapbooks)
Burroughs Wellcome and Co LtdDate: 1880 - 1957Reference: WF/M/GBPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
Royal Army Medical CorpsDate: 17th century - 20th centuryReference: RAMC- Archives and manuscripts
Commentaries on Aristotle
Date: Late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.MSL.1/2- Archives and manuscripts
Museum & Exhibition Book
Date: 1881-1894Reference: WF/M/GB/29/28Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd