Stories
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
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A flat-packed forest
The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Miniatures : free event : Thursday 19 January 18.00-22.00 / Wellcome Collection.
Date: [2012]- Books
Miniatures from a French Horae : British Museum Add. ms. 16997, fifteenth century / Reproduced in honour of John Alexander Herbert.
Date: 1927- Books
Miniatures from Turkish manuscripts : a catalogue and subject index of paintings in the British Library and British Museum / by Norah M. Titley.
British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
Miniatures from Persian manuscripts : a catalogue and subject index of paintings from Persia, India, and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum / Norah M. Titley.
British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.Date: 1977- Books
Intelligence and mental growth / by Claude A. Claremont.
Claremont, Claude A. (Claude Albert), 1890-Date: 1927