Stories
- 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
How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
- Article
The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
- Article
Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
Catalogue
- Videos
Light in our darkness.
Date: 1954- Videos
- Online
Light in our darkness.
Date: 1954- Film
Light in our darkness.
Date: 1954- Books
- Online
Mercy covering the judgment-seat, and life and light triumphing over death and darkness: in the Lord's tender visitation, and wonderful deliverance, of one that sat in darkness, and in the region and shadow of death: witnessed unto in certain epistles and papers of living experience. By Richard Claridge.
Claridge, Richard, 1649-1723.Date: [1757]- Books
Light out of deep darkness : a biography of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan the trachoma pioneer and his campaign against the plague of ophthalmia in Egypt 1903-1923 / Michael MacCallan.
MacCallan, Michael, 1947-Date: [2018]