Stories
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Finding solidarity in arachnophobia
Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
Catalogue
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Machines: a crane, plan and several elevations. Engraving by A. Wilson after A. Slight.
Slight, A.Reference: 45457i- Pictures
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Machines: a crane used at a harbour. Engraving by A. Wilson after A. Slight.
Slight, G. H.Reference: 45458i- Pictures
Machines: a crane, and two kinds of winch. Engraving by A. Wilson after A. Slight.
Slight, A.Reference: 45456i- Books
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Lynn law: or, A Slight sketch of Isaac Preston & Co. By William Curtis, recorder of virtues for the said Borough.
Curtis, William, of Lynn Regis.Date: 1795- Books
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A Slight review of the transactions of the late long Parliament, With some observations on the rise and progress of the septennial bill.
Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXII. [1762]