Stories
- Article
Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
- Book extract
The give and take of caring
Kate Mosse argues that how we define ‘care’ matters, and explores the reciprocity of caring and being cared for.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Article
“Everybody desires a degree of independence”
I’m 26, and building a network of friends and my career. Unlike most people my age, I’m entirely dependent on carers to achieve this.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Women of the war : their heroism and self-sacrifice / by Frank Moore.
Moore, Frank, 1828-1904.Date: 1866- Pictures
Horatius Cocles holding the bridge over the Tiber against invading Etruscans. Line engraving by P. Tanjé after N. Verkolje after G. de Lairesse.
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2823142i- Pictures
- Online
The altruism of a soldier killed in World War I compared to the death of Christ on the cross. Colour process print after J. Clark, 1914.
Clark, James, 1858-1943.Date: 1914Reference: 728807i- Books
- Online
A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / gathered and narrated by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" ; illustrated by L. Frölich.
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901.Date: 1870- Books
Evolution, games, and God : the principle of cooperation / edited by Martin A. Nowak, Sarah Coakley.
Date: 2013