Stories
- Article
How homesickness inspires art
Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.
- Article
Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Bunsen family, diplomats and politician
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von, 1791-1860Date: 1839-1867Reference: MS.8785- Books
Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900 / The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.Date: 25 cm- Books
- Online
Prisoners, diplomats, and the Great War : a study in the diplomacy of captivity / Richard B. Speed III.
Speed, Richard B. (Richard Berry)Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
Herbal diplomats : the contribution of early American nurses (1830-1860) to nineteenth-century health care reform and the botanical medical movement / Martha M. Libster.
Libster, Martha.Date: [2004], ©2004- Archives and manuscripts
MS.6243: normal-sized material
Date: 1854-1921Reference: MS.6243/1-62, 65-100 and 104-130Part of: Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer