Stories
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- In pictures
The hermit life from medieval to modern
Can hermits get lonely? Explore solitary lives through the ages, from early religious ascetics to children imprisoned in churches, and on to those compelled to withdraw from modern life in the 21st century.
- Book extract
The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
- Photo story
The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
Catalogue
- Books
The Edith Cavell nurse from Massachusetts : a record of one year's personal service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne - the Somme, 1916-l9l7 / [Alice L.F. Fitzgerald] ; with an account of the imprisonment, trial and death of Edith Cavell.
Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Florence, 1874-1962.Date: [1917], ©1917- Books
Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck / Johanna Luthman.
Luthman, JohannaDate: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
PATIENTS' RECORDS: CASE FILES
Date: 1936-1966Reference: H64/B/08Part of: SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}- Books
Starry night : Van Gogh at the asylum / Martin Bailey.
Bailey, Martin, 1947-Date: 2018