Stories
- Podcast
Wasteland
In the final episode of ‘The Root of the Matter’, JC takes us to the wasteland. It’s a space that can teach us some of the most profound lessons about the plant world and our relationship to it.
- 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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
By Valley and Habitat
Date: c.1969Reference: WTI/RFS/E/8Part of: Sturrock, Robert F (b.1937)- Books
Bat habitat. #28.
TukruDate: [2020]- Books
Amazônia brasileira III: Arvores e plantas úteis (indígenas e aclimadas) : Nomes vernáculos e nomes vulgares. Classificação botânica. Habitat. Principais aplicações e propriedades / [Paul Lecointe].
Le Cointe, Paul, 1870-1956.Date: 1947- Books
Habitats, environments, and human behavior : studies in ecological psychology and eco-behavioral science from the Midwest Psychological Field Station, 1947-1972 / Roger G. Barker and associates.
Barker, Roger G. (Roger Garlock), 1903-1990.Date: 1978- Books
Habitations coloniales et conditionnement d'air sous les tropiques / par E. Devroey.
Devroey, E. (Egide)Date: [1940]