Stories
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Domestic titans
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
- Article
Sharing Nature: Alone
Being alone in nature can be a contradictory experience of fear and freedom.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Thomas
Robinson, ThomasDate: 1734-42Reference: MS.4229- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Arthur
Date: Dec 1966 - Jan 1967Reference: PENROSE/3/17/17Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Robinson, John
Date: 04/08/2009Reference: TP1/A/695Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Robinson, Jill
Date: 30/07/2009Reference: TP1/A/590Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Robinson, Aaron
Date: 10/10/2009Reference: TP1/A/2309Part of: One and Other Project