Stories
- Article
How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction
Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
- Article
“People see the disability but forget the ability”
I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Photo story
Generation portraits
Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Petrol Pump (artwork)
Date: c. 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/2/1/19Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
Petrol exhaust gases : "potentially more dangerous to health..." : diesel & petrol exhaust gas, food contamination tests : "the exhaust gases from a petrol driven vehicle are potentially more dangerous to health than those of a diesel powered vehicle / test authority: Bostock Hill & Rigby, analytical and consulting chemists.
Date: [1954?]- Archives and manuscripts
"63. Petrol"
Date: 1945-1948Reference: SA/CAS/C/2/1/7Part of: Casualties Union- Books
Final report of the Departmental Committee on Ethyl Petrol.
Great Britain. Committee on Ethyl Petrol.Date: 1930
- Pictures
- Online
Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Petrol Room, with two officials working at tables. Photograph, September 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 38804i