Stories
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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Conserving Audrey
Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
Catalogue
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Miscellaneous Recipes, 18th-19th centuries
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7748- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Collection, 19th Century
Date: c. 1820-1878Reference: MS.5853- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Collections, 19th Century
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.5854- Archives and manuscripts
Alice Stewart (1906-2002)
Stewart, Alice (1906-2002)Date: 1865-2002Reference: PP/AMS- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers relating to Alfred Jones
Date: 1880Reference: RET/6/19/1/85APart of: The Retreat Archive