Stories
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Sharing Nature: Plastic fantastic
There are serious concerns about plastics in the environment. Yet they make our lives much easier, even in the natural world.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
- Books
Materials / Technology Foresight Panel on Materials.
Technology Foresight Panel on Materials.Date: [1995]- Books
Materials : shaping our society / Materials Panel.
Materials Panel.Date: 2000- Books
Materials interactions relevant to the pulp, paper, and wood industries : symposium held April 18-20, 1990, San Francisco, California, U.S.A / editors, D.F. Caulfield, J.D. Passaretti, S.F. Sobczynski.
Date: [1990], ©1990- Archives and manuscripts
Materials for autobiography - letters and testimonials
Date: 1930s-1960sReference: PP/HAD/A.54Part of: Haddow, Professor Sir Alexander (1907-1976)- Archives and manuscripts
Materials and Methods
Date: July 1971Reference: PP/MIA/E/4/51/6Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives
