Stories
- Podcast
Resolve
Bidisha chats to her guests about their personal experiences of resolve, and considers its complicated relationship to happiness.
- Podcast
Hope
In the first episode of our podcast series ‘Hello Happiness’, Bidisha explores our emotions – focusing on hope – with a diverse range of scientists, historians, artists and activists.
- Podcast
Joy
Bidisha explores joy, from the psychology of our earliest laughs to collective and solitary pleasures like comedy, food and performance.
- Podcast
Ecstasy
In the final episode of our podcast, Bidisha takes us on a journey through the highest of highs, from nightclubbing and the ecstasies of religion and drugs to mania.
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
The heads of four women wearing chignons with large curls attached to their natural hair; a chignon piece. Coloured engraving, 1875, after E. Thirion.
Date: 1 January 1875Reference: 32858i- Pictures
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In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 15587i- Books
A guide to the research collections of member libraries / compiled by Oliver Pickering.
Pickering, O. S. (Oliver S.)Date: 1996- Pictures
The head and shoulders of a woman who wears her hair in tight curls, a cap with feathers and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612.Reference: 32149i- Pictures
The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612.Reference: 32147i