Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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A flat-packed forest
The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.
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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
Catalogue
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L.A. Waddell; Sikhimiese making ambulance baskets
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Girls in a field with flowers and baskets.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 549148iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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Silk throwsters, &c. A catalogue of ten pair of double Dutch silk mills, with reels, spindles, and iron-work complete, in very good repair, Twelve Winding Engines, carrying 96 Swifts each, almost new, sundry Doubling Wheels, Runners, &c. a Fifteen Feet Horse Wheel and Mill Work, Counters, and Presses. A very large Quantity of Bobbins of various Sorts, Scales and Weights, Silk Baskets, Trays, Stretchers and Skeining Pins; a Cast Iron Drying Stove and Pipe, a Leaden Cistern, Two Eight-Day Dials, and various other Utensils, the property of Mr. Thomas Kilner, Silk Throwster, (retired from Business) which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Winstanley, on the premises, no. 33, Spital Square, on Tuesday, September 25, 1787, At Eleven O'Clock.
Winstanley, Richard.Date: 1787]
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A tea plantation in China: workers tread the tea in baskets. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
Reference: 25265i
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Four people with a donkey and baskets of goods are standing around talking, two children are stealing bread from one of the baskets. Lithograph.
Date: May 20th 1831Reference: 31895i