Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Medieval doodles
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Limb reduction defects (non-thalidomide)" [part 1] - x-rays
Date: c.1985Reference: PP/CNE/B/1/10aPart of: Dr Claus Newman: archive- Pictures
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The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: 1863Reference: 12101iPart of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin- Books
Notes on some Indian species of the genus Phlebotomus. Part XIII, Methods of collection and preservation / by J.A. Sinton.
Sinton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1884-1956.Date: [1925]- E-journals
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Annual review of fish diseases
Date: ©1991-1996- E-journals
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Fish & shellfish immunology
Date: 1991-