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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

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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.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • Warner's safe yeast : pure and wholesome, the best known : Gran'ma, how lovely this hop yeast smells! / [Warner's Safe Cure Co.].
  • Warner's safe yeast : pure and wholesome, the best known : Gran'ma, how lovely this hop yeast smells! / [Warner's Safe Cure Co.].
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Don’t fade away

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