Stories
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Writing back to authority
As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.
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Writing in remission
Reading the writings of the lifelong hypochondriac Jacques Derrida during lockdown, Brian Dillon realises his own health anxiety has become unusually subdued.
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Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Letter from G Rivett on Ross' loan of material for the writing of a book
Date: 1997Reference: GC/238/16/3Part of: Ross, Sir (James) Keith- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from Odhams Press Ltd
Date: 15 Sep 1947Reference: HALDANE/5/1/2/13/4Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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A letter against popery: particularly, against admitting the authority of fathers or councils in controversies of religion; by Sophia Charlotte the late Queen of Prussia. Being an answer to a letter written to her Majesty by Father Vota, an Italian jesuit, Confessor to King Augustus. There is prefixt by the Publisher, a Letter containing the occasion of the Queen's writing, and an Apology for the Church of England.
Sophia Charlotte, Queen Consort of Frederick I., King of Prussia.Date: [1712]- Books
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The english grammar, by question and answer; with notes. Containing plain and comprehensive, rules for speaking or writing English correctly; with a Variety of Examples and Exceptions. In which all unnecessary Difficulties are avoided; and the most useful Rules distinguished from the less useful, by being printed in a larger Letter. To which is added, an appendix: containing a system of rhetoric, &c.
Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from A J Bateman to J B S Haldane
Date: 29 Aug 1948Reference: HALDANE/5/1/2/8/17Part of: Haldane Papers