Stories
- Photo story
The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
- In pictures
Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta
Hookah smoking began in the royal courts of Mughal India, and like many other local customs, it was readily adopted by British colonials in the 18th century as a symbol of wealth and status.
- Article
Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
- 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.
Catalogue
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Customer Mushie.
Date: 1800?]- Books
Customer information / Thames Water.
Thames Water Utilities Limited.Date: 1993- Pictures
Customers, trades, menial employments and handicrafts of Hindustan. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582752i- Books
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.
Andrews, Jonathan, 1961-Date: 2003
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Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
Date: 1877Reference: 25436i
