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
Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
- In pictures
Bird-spotting from medieval to modern times
What use is ‘twitching’? Exploring materials created over 500 years shows that there’s more to birdwatching than meets the eye.
- Article
Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Receipt books
Date: 1904-1913Reference: SA/MWF/C.238Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Receipt Book
Date: c. 1816-1826Reference: MS.8012Part of: Colles Family receipt books- Archives and manuscripts
Receipt Book
Date: c. 1840s-1890sReference: MS.8013Part of: Colles Family receipt books- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Receipt Book
Lady PulstonDate: 18th centuryReference: MS.8048- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Receipt book
Dolben FamilyDate: c. 1805-1845Reference: MS.2202Part of: Dolben Family