Stories
- Article
Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Documents of my breath
Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.
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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears
Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
WHO Study Group: loose notes, ephemera, sketches
Date: 1953-1956Reference: PP/BOW/P/2/2/2Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Travel Notebooks
Date: 1839-1844Reference: GALTON/1/2/4/2Part of: Galton Papers- Books
- Online
The every day book : containing biographical sketches, personal adventures, incidents of travel, sketches in natural history, useful information in science, poetical selection, and other subjects fitted to interest and enrich the mind.
Date: 1855- Books
Loiterings in Europe; or, sketches of travel in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, and Ireland. With an appendix, containing observations on European charities and medical institutions / [John W. Corson].
Corson, John W.Date: 1849- Archives and manuscripts
Sketchbook of Trip to Germany and Hastings
Date: 1843-1844Reference: GALTON/1/2/4/2/3Part of: Galton Papers