Stories
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A virtual view of history
Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Saint Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. Oil painting.
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Fields, roads, railway line etc.: bird's eye view. Watercolour by R. Coates, 1966.
Coates, Robert, active approximately 1966.Date: 9.11.66 [9 November 1966]Reference: 2921360iPart of: Adamson Collection
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Royal Belfast Hospital: the courtyard. Watercolour.
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The Phlegraean plain: birdseye view from the top of the San Nicola mountain. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43671i- Pictures
Cotmandene.
Beales, David, 1954-Date: 2001Reference: 3312972i