Stories
- Interview
Inside the minds of A R Hopwood and Honor Beddard
The curators of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ reveal the stories behind the exhibits, and the intriguing truths the show confronts us with.
- Article
The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
Catalogue
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A letter concerning the use and method of studying history. By the Author of Letters concerning Mind.
Author of Letters concerning mind.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Letters concerning mind. To which is added, a sketch of universal arithmetic; comprehending the differential calculus, and the doctrine of fluxions. By the late Reverend Mr. John Petvin, A. M. Vicar of Ilsington in Devon.
Petvin, John, 1690?-Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An essay on the civil wars of France, extracted from curious manuscripts. By the celebrated Mons. de Voltaire, Author of the History of Charles XII. And The Letters concerning the English Nation.
Voltaire, 1694-1778.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Palæmon's creed reviewed and examined: wherein several gross and dangerous errors, advanced by the author of the Letters on Theron and Aspasio, are detected and refuted; and the Protestant doctrine concerning the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace, Conviction of Sin, Regeneration, Faith, Justification, Inherent Grace, &c. vindicated from the Cavils and Exceptions of that Author, and shewn to be entirely conformable to the Apostolic Doctrine concerning the several Points afore-mentioned. In two volumes. By David Wilson. ...
Wilson, David, -1784.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Reflections on the late Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the study and use of history; especially so far as they relate to Christianity, and the Holy Scriptures. To which are added, observations on some passages in those Letters concerning the consequences of the late Revolution, and the State of Things under the present Establishment. The second edition. By John Leland, D. D. Author of An Answer to Dr. Tydall's Christianity as Old as the Creation; The Divine Authority of the Old and New Testament asserted, &c. against the Moral Philosopher; and Remarks on a late Pamphlet, intituled, Christianity not sounded on Argument.
Leland, John, 1691-1766.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]