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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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How we visualise viruses
Discover how images of the antigens that make us sick have evolved over time and been tailored to meet the demands of different epidemics.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Medieval doodles
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
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Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.
Sheppard.Date: 1 October 1815Reference: 24392i- Books
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The Tailors; a tragedy for warm weather, in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Memorial for the journeymen-tailors, defenders, against the master-tailors of Edinburgh, pursuers.
Date: 1762]- Books
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Lord Monboddo reporter. Information for the Incorporation of tailors in Edinburgh, defenders; against Alexander Campbell and others, designing themselves journeymen-tailors there, pursuers.
Incorporation of Tailors (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: 1770]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of the deacon, masters, and other members of the Incorporation of tailors in Glasgow, ...
Incorporation of Tailors (Glasgow, Scotland)Date: 1762]