Stories
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
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Maladaptive daydreaming, gender myths and me
Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Appointments with plants
In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Petals : beautiful feminine young lady offers unhurried private massage service guaranteed...friendly discreet luxury ; visiting service, open early til late.
Date: [1993]- Digital Images
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Rose petal
Annie Cavanagh- Books
The weight of a petal : Ars Botanica / edited by Sita Reddy.
Date: [2018]- Archives and manuscripts
'The petal constituents of Taraxacum officinale', MSc thesis, University of Durham, May 1936
Date: May 1936Reference: PP/MCI/C/1Part of: McIlwain, Henry- Pictures
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An orchid (Cattleya guttata): flowers, leafy stem and petal. Coloured etching by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.
Drake, S. A., active 1830-1840.Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26413i