Stories
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
- Article
Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
- 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.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birch, Carroll L
Date: Feb-Nov 1939Reference: HALDANE/5/2/1/57Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birch, David
Date: 23/07/2009Reference: TP1/A/401Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
Birch, Robert (fl.1789)
Birch, Robert, (fl.1789)Date: 29/09/1789Reference: MS.8006/1Part of: Miscellany: British, 18th century- Archives and manuscripts
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Birch, A C
Date: Oct-Nov 1945Reference: HALDANE/5/1/3/4Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Birch, Marie
Date: c 1973 - c 1994Reference: WF/M/I/PR/099Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd