Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero
Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.
- Article
Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of International Affairs Conference
Date: September 2003Reference: PP/SUL/C/2/10Part of: John Sulston: archives- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Royal Institute of International Affairs: correspondence and ms lecture notes
Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)Date: May 1960Reference: PP/WWS/G/6/3Part of: Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)- Archives and manuscripts
Programme for Royal Institute of International Affairs advanced course on 'The problem of Germany'
Date: June 1945Reference: PP/HVD/B/1/13Part of: Dicks, Henry- Books
International cooperation in the 21st century : partnerships for delivering the post-2015 agenda.
International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Partnerships for Delivering the Post-2015 Agenda (Conference) (2014 : Royal Institute of International Affairs)Date: [2014]- Books
Population growth in Malaya : an analysis of recent trends / by T.E. Smith.
Smith, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1916-Date: [1952]