Stories
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
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Communications / [11th International Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians].
International Congress of Paper Historians 1972 : Arnhem, Netherlands)Date: 1972- Journals
The quarterly : the review of the British Association of Paper Historians.
Date: 1989-- Books
The Oxford papers : proceedings of the British Association of Paper Historians fourth annual conference, held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 17-19 September 1993 / edited by Peter Bower.
British Association of Paper Historians. Conference 1993 : Oxford, England)Date: 1996- Books
The Exeter papers : proceedings of the British Association of Paper Historians fifth annual conference, Hope Hall, University of Exeter, 23-25 September 1994 / edited by Peter Bower.
British Association of Paper Historians. Conference 1994 : Exeter, England)Date: 2001- Books
Papers of the 19th International Congress of Paper Historians, Durham and Hertford, UK, 4-10 September 1988.
International Congress of Paper Historians 1988 : Durham, England and Hertford, England)Date: 1988