Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hogan, Susan - Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy
Date: 2001Reference: DGH1/10/1/18Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Ephemera
Clean and sparkling : soaps & detergents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 30 November - 27 February 1999 / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Notebook of extracts from the early General Visitors' Books 1811 - 1861 and notes on some of the visitors named
Date: 1930sReference: RET 1/10/2/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Andrews, Jonathan and Smith, Iain (eds) - 'Let There Be Light Again' A History of Gartnaval Royal Hospital from its beginnings to the present day
Date: 1993Reference: DGH1/10/1/2Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
