Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Article
The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
Catalogue
- Books
Paper, its making, merchanting and usage : the paper merchants' textbook / prepared by the Education Committee of the National Association of Paper Merchants under the editorship of S. Carter Gilmour.
National Association of Paper Merchants. Education Committee.Date: 1962- Books
Ready reckoner.
National Association of Paper Merchants.Date: [1966?]- Archives and manuscripts
Paper on domiciliary nursing schemes by Miss J P Watt at the annual conference of the National Association of Insurance Committees
Date: 1921Reference: SA/QNI/P.8/3Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
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Techniques of communications with Rural Communities. Paper by Frank Wilder, read at Family Planning and National Development Conference, Bandung, Indonesia
Date: Jun 1969Reference: SA/FPA/CB/17/19Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Papers of the Conference on Book and Paper Conservation held in Budapest 4-7 September 1990 / revised and edited by Beatrix Kastaly.
Conference on Book and Paper Conservation (1990 : Budapest, Hungary)Date: 1992