Stories
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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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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
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Conservation of paintings and the graphic arts : preprints of contributions to the Lisbon Congress, 1972, 9-14 October 1972.
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.Date: [1972]- Books
Solubility and solvents for conservation problems / Giorgio Torraca.
Torraca, Giorgio.Date: 1975- Books
Issues in the conservation of paintings / edited by David Bomford, Mark Leonard.
Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
Modern paints uncovered : proceedings from the modern paints uncovered symposium / organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, Tate, and the National Gallery of Art, Tate Modern, London, May 16-19, 2006 ; edited by Thomas J. S. Learner [and others].
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Cleaning, retouching and coatings : technology and practice for easel paintings and polychrome sculpture / edited by John S. Mills and Perry Smith.
Date: [1990], ©1990