Stories
- 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.
- Article
Conserving Audrey
Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
Catalogue
- Books
Solubility and solvents for conservation problems / Giorgio Torraca.
Torraca, Giorgio.Date: 1975- Books
The restoration of engravings, drawings, books, and other works on paper / Max Schweidler ; translated, edited, and with an appendix by Roy Perkinson.
Schweidler, Max, 1885-Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
New approaches to book and paper conservation-restoration / edited by Patricia Engel [and others].
Date: 2011- Journals
ICON news : the magazine of the Institute of Conservation.
Date: 2005-- Journals
Members handbook : list of members / The United Kingdom Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
United Kingdom Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.