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Belonging and why we long for it

Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.

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Audrey and her family

In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.

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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats

Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.

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  • A character dressed eccentrically, holding an umbrella and walking on raised shoes. Etching.
  • The eccentric Baron D'Aguilar and friend amidst his starving livestock. Line engraving, 1803.
  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving, 1803.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with starving animals, and farm buildings in the background. Stipple engraving.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with animals and farm buildings in background. Stipple engraving by R. Page.
  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving by G. Scott, 1803.
  • Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum.
  • Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum.
  • Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum.
  • Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum.
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