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Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Nothing beats staying in a hotel whose suites hold some stories — especially if they’re of the spooky variety. The same friends who roll their eyes at mentions of luxury amenities and amazing views will be wide-eyed when you tell them…
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Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the…
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Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
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Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
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A rare print of the US Declaration of Independence has gone on display for the first time at The National Archives
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In February we collaborated with Aardman Academy on a special event for families.
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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Troy Taylor: There’s a story about a phantom riverboat that I always liked, about how if you heard the riverboat whistle blow on a foggy morning but you never…
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One of literature’s greatest gifts is its ability to transport us to other worlds: some utopian and fantastical, others dark and unnerving, scary and supernatural ... This guide is all about the latter (which are, arguably, much more…
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An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.
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“Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laqueur explores the work of an artist whose…
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“A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.
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By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.
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Wallace letter returns to The National Archives
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Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.
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In this blog post, we explore the physical elements of a 19th century Chinese military map and what it tells us about our East and Southeast Asian records.
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In this blog post Sam Palmer explains a new feature created for Digital Record Object Identification (DROID) software and working with cloud files.
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Charity Archives and Records Now was a one-day event exploring new directions in research, policy and practice on voluntary sectors archives.
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