Jul 7, 2017
My interest was piqued in embroidery by the book Stiching the world: embroidered maps and women’s geographical education in which Judith Tyner describes schoolgirls in Britain and the United States creating embroidered map samplers and even silk globes designed to...
Oct 8, 2012
The Royal Society Centre for History of Science has developed an online picture database of historical images from the Society’s collections. The website acts as a showcase for the Society’s extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will...
Sep 26, 2011
British History in the Long 18th Century8 June 2011Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia OpieAmelia Opie was a prominent English author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems between 1790 and 1834. ...
Sep 23, 2010
The Mexican Suitcase is actually 3 cardboard boxes. They contained over 4,000 negatives of photographs taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War. For many years the photographs were thought to be lost but they were...
Sep 23, 2010
Charlotte Trower (1855-1928) is a little-known amateur botanical artist who worked with another amateur botanist George Druce to produce over 1,800 scientifically accurate watercolours of British flora. Her life, art, and her collection are outlined in a recent...
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