Stories
- Article
Belonging and why we long for it
Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.
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An insider’s view of Play Well
Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
- Book extract
Your gut’s instincts
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
"The Animals' Friend" kindness cards / Animals' Friend Society.
Animals' Friend Society.Date: [1915?]
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Animals' Friend Society, for the prevention of cruelty to animals [Prospectus and abstracts from the Society's reports].
National Animals' Friend Society (London, England)Date: [1845]
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Treatment of animals : being a speech delivered at the Kensington Town Hall on December 15, 1913, at a meeting called to protest against cruelties to performing animals / by John Galsworthy.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.Date: [1913]- Books
For love of beasts / by John Galsworthy.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.Date: 1928- Books
Bird-caging and bird-catching / by Ernest Bell.
Bell, Ernest, 1851-1933.Date: 1924