Stories
- Article
The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
- Article
When ‘get well soon’ doesn’t cut it
When loved ones are seriously ill, we can hide behind dishonest platitudes or struggle to find the words. Meet the woman working to fix how we speak to sick people.
- Article
Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
- Article
Writing in remission
Reading the writings of the lifelong hypochondriac Jacques Derrida during lockdown, Brian Dillon realises his own health anxiety has become unusually subdued.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Cards and reprints missing
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/LOW/D/21-24Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Cards offering best wishes
Date: September 1982Reference: PP/RHT/F/5/4Part of: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart (1912-1998)- Archives and manuscripts
Cards from `the Queen's Roll'
Date: 1907-1962Reference: SA/QNI/J.7/1Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
Cards and letters from Chain's mother
Date: 1933-1939Reference: PP/EBC/A.201-A.203Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Books
Cards and gifts: Christmas 1992 / Leukaemia Research Fund.
Date: 1992
