Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- 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.
- 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
Solving the mystery of how to be happy
Crime writer Sophie Hannah thinks she might be too happy. Worried she’s using her happiness as an excuse to avoid a big work problem, she turns to a life coach for help.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Taylor, Ina - Helen Allingham's England
Date: 1990Reference: DGH1/10/1/33Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
- Pictures
- Online
The Royal United Hospital, Bath: a nurse reading in a parlour. Photograph, ca. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 576959i
- Books
- Online
The education of the deaf and dumb by means of lip-reading and articulation / by W.B. Dalby.
Dalby, William B. (William Bartlett), Sir, 1840-1918.Date: 1872- Books
Committed to the cleansing flame : the development of cremation in nineteenth-century England / Brian Parsons.
Parsons, Brian, 1965-Date: 2005- Books
England : a play for galleries / by Tim Crouch.
Crouch, Tim, 1964-Date: 2007
