Stories
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
- Article
Why we need to decolonise the skies
Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.
- Article
Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Stars where my soul should be / created by Steven Fraser.
Fraser, StevenDate: [2019]- Pictures
Stars, hearts, discs and moons. Gouache by H. Gander, 1968.
Gander, Hillary, active approximately 1967-1968.Date: 9th May 68 [9 May 1968]Reference: 2948697iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Stars and glowworms : medicine in the Enlightenment (1700-1800) / [Félix Martí Ibañez].
Martí-Ibáñez, Félix, 1915-1972Date: 1962
- Ephemera
- Online
Stars of the dawn chorus, The Robin : welcome to the new day.
Date: [between 1960 and 1963?]- Books
Stars, minds, and fate : essays in ancient and medieval cosmology / J.D. North.
North, John David.Date: 1989
