Stories
- Article
Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report / Oriental Collections, India Office Library and Records.
British Library. Oriental Collections.Date: [1988-1990], ©1988-1990- Books
Catalogue of the European manuscripts in the Oriental and India Office Collections of The British Library / by David M. Blake.
British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections.Date: 1998- Journals
Annual report / Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, India Office Library and Records.
British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.Date: 1987- Books
Second supplementary catalogue of Hebrew printed books in the British Library, 1893-1960 / prepared for publication by Diana Rowland Smith ; based on the work of David Goldstein, Cyril Moss and others.
British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections.Date: 1994- Books
Subject-guide to the Arabic manuscripts in the British Library / compiled by Peter Stocks ; edited by Colin F. Baker.
British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections.Date: 2001