Stories
- Article
How ritual creates meaning
In a world that encourages us to quash our sense of wonder, ritual can help push away apathy and nurture life-enhancing creativity and imagination.
- In pictures
How chloroform shaped the murder mystery
Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.
- Article
The relationship between science and art
Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.
- Article
The wishing-tree of Loch Maree
So many pilgrims have visited a tiny loch island in Scotland that the site of their devotions, a fragile and crumbling tree, has collapsed under the ministrations of thousands of hands leaving thanks for its rumoured health-bestowing powers.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Victoria College, Jersey
Date: 1917-1922Reference: PP/AEM/A.53-68Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Victoria Road and Nightingale Road
Date: late 20th centuryReference: SA/MAC/J.3/39Part of: Mental After Care Association- Pictures
- Online
Victoria Square, Montreal, Quebec. Photograph, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 571562iPart of: United States of America: landscapes, architecture and portraits. Photographs (some by Francis Frith), ca. 1880.- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Victoria Eugenics Society
Date: 1940-1961Reference: SA/EUG/E.4Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Victoria Eugenics Society
Date: 1914-1926Reference: SA/EUG/E.3Part of: Eugenics Society