Stories
- Article
The enigma of the medieval folding almanac
With its combination of rich, portable data and high-end style, this folding almanac could have been the medieval equivalent of the latest iPhone.
- Article
Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Feast your eyes / National Eye Health Week.
- Books
Feast : why humans share food / Martin Jones.
Jones, Martin, 1951-Date: 2007- Books
Feast : a history of grand eating / Roy Strong.
Strong, Roy.Date: 2002- Books
Feast or famine : food and drink in American westward expansion / Reginald Horsman.
Horsman, Reginald.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Feast and famine : a history of food in Ireland, 1500-1920 / Leslie Clarkson and Margaret Crawford.
Clarkson, L. A. (Leslie Albert), 1933-Date: 2001