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How to thrive in lockdown

Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.

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Audrey in the world

As the collection is fully catalogued, the archive is opened up to the public. A feature film about Audrey premieres, and Audrey gets her own Wikipedia page, so people can learn about her. For archivist Elena, it’s time to step back.

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Cataloguing Audrey

Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.

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Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

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  • Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
  • Women on an island in the Strait of Magellan resisting capture or death at the hands of Dutch pirates under Olivier van Noort, 1598. Engraving by T. Bonnor, 1768.
  • An angler pulls in a raft on which Russian pirates are tied to a gibbet with hooks piercing into their flesh. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1805.
  • The pirate Storzenbecher (Störtebeker). Drawing, c. 1789, after D. Hopfer.
  • A boy and his cat are on a pirate ship. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three children standing in a street wearing the costumes of a witch, a lion and a pirate; an advertisement about the AIDS Forum Berlin e.V. supporting children and their families affected by AIDS and HIV. Photocopy.
  • Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
  • Bacchus captured by sailors transforms them into dolphins. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons..
  • Two men wearing turbans standing in a harbour converse with a sailor while sailors and captives are seated on the ground. Etching by M. Schaep, 1649, after C. de Wael.
  • Parga, Albania (subsequently Greece): the castle, part of the town and the sea seen from the coast road. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
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