Stories
- Article
Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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Whimsical notes
Date: c.1930sReference: SA/PHC/D.1/10Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Books
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Will Whimsical's Miscellany.
Whimsical, Will.Date: [1799]- Books
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Frobisher's new select collection of epitaphs; Humorous, Whimsical, Moral, & Satyrical.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The Whimsical repository, or General receptacle. Of wit, humour & entertainment; containing ... for the year ...
Date: [1774]-- Books
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Gasconado the great: A Tragi - Comi, Political, Whimsical opera, As it was intended For the Entertainment of the public, But rejected by the Managers of both Theatres.
Worsdale, James, 1692?-1767.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]