Stories
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A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
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Housing policy, social welfare, and family life in 'Red Vienna', 1919-34 / by Reinhard Sieder.
Sieder, Reinhard.Date: 1985- Books
Housing in urban Britain 1780-1914 : class, capitalism and construction / prepared for the Economic History Society by Richard Rodger.
Rodger, Richard.Date: 1989- Books
Housing the poor of Paris, 1850-1902 / Ann-Louise Shapiro.
Shapiro, Ann-Louise, 1944-Date: 1985- Books
Housing, citizenship, and communities for people with serious mental illness : theory, research, practice, and policy perspectives / edited by John Sylvestre, Geoffrey Nelson and Tim Aubry.
Date: [2017]- Books
Prefabs : a history of the UK temporary housing programme / Brenda Vale.
Vale, Brenda.Date: 1995