Stories
- Article
The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
- Article
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
The origins of publishers' cloth binding / by John Carter.
Carter, John, 1905-1975.Date: [1931?]- Books
Victorian publishers' book-bindings in cloth and leather / Ruari McLean.
McLean, Ruari.Date: 1974- Books
- Online
Chemistry, meteorology and the function of digestion considered with reference to natural theology / By William Prout.
Prout, William, 1785-1850.Date: 1834- Books
- Online
Episodes of insect life / By Acheta Domestica, M.E.S. [i.e. L.M. Budgen].
Budgen, L. M., Miss.Date: 1849-1851- Books
The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce.
Pierce, Charles.Date: 1857