Stories
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
- Article
Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
Catalogue
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Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.
British Museum. Department of Manuscripts.Date: 1883-1910- Books
Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / [Cyril Ernest Wright].
Wright, C. E. (Cyril Ernest)Date: 1972- Books
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Catalogue of engraved British portraits : preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue.
O'Donoghue, Freeman M. (Freeman Marius)Date: 1908- Archives and manuscripts
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'London - British Museum, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities'
Date: 1971-1972Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Ret/B.15Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.
Smith, W. Campbell (Walter Campbell)Date: 1982