Stories
- Article
In celebration of LGBTQ+ comedy
At school, homophobic jokes made Ella Braidwood feel uncomfortable and ashamed. Fast-forward to today’s inclusive comedy scene, and her very different feelings of hope and happiness.
- Article
Laughing at disaster
If joking around can help us cope when the worst happens, could comedy be a useful way to connect on climate change?
- In pictures
A personal history of albinism
Caroline Butterwick has often felt singled out because of her albinism. Here she explores how the genetic condition has affected her life, and how self-acceptance has followed understanding.
- Article
The catharsis of cringe
Watching cringe comedy can be therapeutic. Find out why some of us are drawn to the build-up of stress in shows like ‘Frasier’ and ‘The Office’.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Photocircus: Snap out of It? You Must be Joking!"
Date: 2000Reference: PP/KEN/141Part of: Keith Kennedy- Pictures
Title page to a series entitled 'Thirty-six joking, playful selections of famous places in Tokyo'. Colour woodcut by Ikkei, 1870s.
Ikkei, active approximately 1870.Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 36961i- Books
- Online
The art of joking; or, an essay on witticism; in the manner of Mr. Pope's Essay on criticism: with Proper Examples to the Risible Rules. To which is added The laws of laughing, and the contrast, or a Joke and a Jest, In small compass exprest.
Smilewell, Samuel.Date: [1774?]- Books
An address on the psychology of joking / delivered at the opening of the Medical Society of London, October 1887 by [John Hughlings Jackson].
Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.Date: 1932- Books
Rituals of silence : long-term tranquilizer use by women in the Netherlands a social case study / Joke Haafkens.
Haafkens, Joke.Date: 1997