Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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Eccentric doctors / by Alan Wykes.
Wykes, Alan.Date: 1975- Books
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Eccentric personages / by W. Russell.
Russell, William, Esq.Date: 1864- Books
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The eccentric mirror: reflecting a faithful and interesting delineation of male and female characters, ancient and modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary qualificatons, talents, and propensities, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes.
Wilson, G. H.Date: 1806-1807- Books
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Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.
Date: [1819?]- Pictures
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Baron D'Aguilar, eccentric merchant farmer. Line engraving, 1803.
Date: December 1st 1803Reference: 118i