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Ten favourites from the stores

Books, sex workers’ cards, a bomb... the Retrieval Team gives us a glimpse behind the scenes.

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Digitising Audrey

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.

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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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  • Period of loan : current journals - 14 days, all other material - 1 month... / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ... Library.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • ReOrientalisms.
  • ReOrientalisms.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench in the process of being filled, in an area of ground used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • M0008116: Portrait of Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927)
  • Birkbeck, T. B.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
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