Stories
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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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Bringing Braille back to the modern world
For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.
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Chasing down a mystery illness
In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.
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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.
Catalogue
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Rowing; open-air swimming bath, Wales
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Rowing boat in a storm on the Ganges river, India. Etching by Thomas Medland after William Hodges.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Reference: 26912i- Archives and manuscripts
The man in the rowing boat (artwork)
Date: c.1971Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/6/14/1Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
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Two naked men rowing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2008971iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Pictures
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A man rowing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 27783iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements