Stories
- Article
The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
- 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
Do you see what I see?
Is reality actually what you see, or just an elaborate illusion?
- Article
Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
[Torches]
Date: 1931Reference: WA/PHO/Wri/4Part of: Photographs
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Torches or trees with purple and red grids. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1965.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: [ca. 1965?]Reference: 2863721iPart of: Adamson Collection
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Men in costume dancing with torches under a pergola by night; a women is served with a drink at the side. Engraving.
Reference: 34183i- Ephemera
Torche : Tory campaign for homosexual equality / Torche.
Date: [1992?]
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New York City: firemen march through the street carrying torches. Wood engraving.
Date: 23 Jan. 1858Reference: 29407i