Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
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Miscellany: English, 16th-17th centuries
Date: 16th century - 17th centuryReference: MS.7382- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellany: French, 16th-17th centuries
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7672- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellaneous: German, 16th-17th centuries
Date: 1636-1699Reference: MS.7553- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellaneous: Low Countries, 16th-17th centuries
Date: 1582-1683Reference: MS.7554- Books
Women and economic life in the Polish cities during the 16th-17th centuries / Maria Bogucka.
Bogucka, Maria.Date: 1990