Stories
- Article
The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Books
63 [i.e. Sixty-three] IPEX catalogue / International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition.
International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition 1963 : London, England)Date: [1963]- Books
Fairs, markets and the itinerant book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: 2007- Books
An exhibition of manuscripts & printed books, held at Eton College Library / selected and catalogued by Paul Quarrie.
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Congress 1984 : London, England)Date: [1984]- Books
The medieval book : illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Barbara A. Shailor.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
A continental shelf : books across Europe from Ptolemy to Don Quixote an exhibition to mark the re-opening of the Bodleian Exhibition Room.
Bodleian Library.Date: 1994