Stories
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Standard Bean Response Curve' part 2
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: PP/JRE/B.330Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
'Standard Bean Response Curve' part 1
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: PP/JRE/B.329Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
[Symmetry of Bending Curve}
Date: c.1960Reference: PP/CRI/H/1/43/6Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Archives and manuscripts
'Standard Bean Response Curve'
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: PP/JRE/B.329, B.330Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"3rd Layer Line Photometer Curve"
Date: Feb 1956Reference: FRKN 2/17Part of: The Papers of Rosalind Franklin