Stories
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Chasing spring
Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.
- 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.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
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Contributions to social pathology / by John Bird (Blind).
Bird, John, active 1862.Date: 1862- Pictures
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St. Mary's College, Harlow, Essex: bird's-eye view and scale plan. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1862, after R.J. Withers.
Jobbins, John Richard, active 1839-1864.Date: March 1862Reference: 18047i- Pictures
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Grand Palais?, Paris: panoramic view. Wood engraving by I.S. Heaviside, 1862, after B. Sly after Liandier.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 6 September 1862Reference: 22002i- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890