Stories
- 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.
- Article
Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
- Article
The food diary and the power of unhealth
Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Nurses, male and female, sitting reading newspapers and drinking tea in nurses’ sitting room at second Nurses Home
Date: c 1950sReference: RET 1/8/5/6/4Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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At the New Rooms. Adjoining to the Marquis of Granby near Reading. On Saturday the 29th of August, 1778, Will be Perform'd a concert of music. Boxes, 3s. Pit, 2s. Gall. 1s. Tickets for the concert to be had of Mr. Smith, at the Marquis of Granby. To begin exactly at half past six O'Clock. Between the different Parts of the concert will be Rehears'd, (gratis). The tragedy Of Romeo and Juliet. With A Solemn Dirge, and Enneral Procession of Juliet, to the Monument of the Capulets. And Thomas and Sally, or the Sailor's return.
Smith, Mr., active 1778.Date: 1778]- Books
The British Library : providing services beyond the reading rooms / report by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
Date: 2004- Archives and manuscripts
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Nurses, male and female, in sitting room at second Nurses’ Home
Date: c 1950s - 1960sReference: RET 1/8/5/6/5Part of: The Retreat Archive
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The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886.Date: 1844Reference: 38473i
