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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’

An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.

  • Article

Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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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.

  • Book extract

Chasing down a mystery illness

In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.

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  • Rowing; open-air swimming bath, Wales
  • A man rowing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man rowing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two naked men rowing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Ship-building: staves, oars, and a rowing-boat. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • A naked man sits on a rowing machine and rows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Quarantine Station, Culebra Island, Panama: men in rowing boat in foreground. Photograph, 1911.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
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