Stories
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Domestic titans
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
- Article
Sharing Nature: Alone
Being alone in nature can be a contradictory experience of fear and freedom.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Thomas
Robinson, ThomasDate: 1734-42Reference: MS.4229- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Arthur
Date: Dec 1966 - Jan 1967Reference: PENROSE/3/17/17Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Lionel
Date: 1908Reference: GALTON/3/3/17/22Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson Crusoe
Date: 1952Reference: DGH1/7/2/1/12Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Robinson, J. D.
Robinson, J. D.Date: 1853-1859Reference: MS.4228