Stories
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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.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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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.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Collected Papers: correspondence
Date: 1990-1992Reference: SA/TCC/F/4/1Part of: Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships- Archives and manuscripts
'Ismond Rosen Collected Papers. Correspondence 1955-61 19'
Date: 1955-1961Reference: PP/ROS/B/19Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
'Ismond Rosen Collected Papers. Correspondence 1974-78 22'
Date: 1974-1978Reference: PP/ROS/B/22Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
'Ismond Rosen Collected Papers. Correspondence 1980-92 23'
Date: 1980-1992Reference: PP/ROS/B/23Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
'Ismond Rosen Collected Papers. Correspondence 1968-73 21'
Date: 1968-1973Reference: PP/ROS/B/21Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)