Stories
- Article
Collecting pandemic stories
Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
- In pictures
The Migraine Art Competition Collection
The Migraine Art Competition ran for seven years in the 1980s and resulted in over 500 unique and striking works of art that represent what it means to live with migraine.
- Article
Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
- Article
The fine line between collecting and hoarding
Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.
Catalogue
- Books
Drugstore collectibles / Patricia McDaniel.
McDaniel, Patricia.Date: 1994- Books
Dental collectibles and antiques / William J. Carter and Jean Graham-Carter.
Carter, Bill.Date: 1992- Books
Dental collectibles & antiques / Bill Carter [and others].
Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
Medical, dental & pharmaceutical collectibles : an identification and value guide / by Don Fredgant.
Fredgant, Don, 1947-Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
The pill rollers : a book on apothecary antiques and drug store collectibles / by Lillian C. & Charles G. Richardson.
Richardson, Lillian C.Date: 1979
