Stories
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
- Article
Conserving Audrey
Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Staining: Giminez's method
Date: c.1940s-1960sReference: GC/177/F/2/6Part of: Fulton, Forrest- Books
Staining methods, histologic and histochemical / J.F.A. McManus ; Robert W. Mowry.
McManus, J. F. A. (Joseph Forde Anthony), 1911-Date: [1960], ©1960- Books
Staining leather / by Paul I. Smith.
Smith, Paul Ignatius Slee, 1905-Date: [1929]- Books
Certistain standards for microscopical staining.
Date: 1985- Books
Biological staining methods / [George T. Gurr].
Gurr, George T.Date: 1957