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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Bringing Braille back to the modern world

For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.

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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.

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Who was Audrey Amiss?

Elena Carter introduces the vast collection left behind by artist Audrey Amiss, who documented her life in astonishing detail.

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  • By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.
  • Muscles of the horse. Engraving by C. Grignion after F. Sartorius for J. Bridges, 1772.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • A gun maker is working at the window of his workshop, talking to a customer. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
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