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The Last Woman – Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic vision
By Madeleine Joelson In May of 1823, Mary Shelley found herself widowed and alone. She had returned to England from Italy after the deaths of her husband Percy and their three children, as well as...
History, sex and identity – exploring the legacy of Mary Renault
For a novelist often regarded as ‘middle-brow’, twentieth-century author Mary Renault’s books are striking in their historical accuracy, psychological complexity and meaningful social impact....
Behind the books – a conversation with cataloguer Theodora Robinson
Lauren Hepburn interviews Peter Harrington's Theodora Robinson about her role as a cataloguer and some of the items she has worked with. Tell us a bit about the importance of cataloguing – where...
“To console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight” – Wordsworth’s Daffodils
By Madeleine Joelson On April 15th, 1802 Dorothy Wordsworth and her brother William were walking around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. The diary entry in which Dorothy records the...
Democratic Depravity: Curt Moreck’s Berlin
By Andy Stewart MacKay After the horrors of the Great War, “All values were changed” wrote the novelist Stefan Zweig of 1920s Berlin; the city “transformed into the Babylon of the world”. It wasn’t...
A plague on all your books: Great works written in isolation
By Adam Douglas, senior specialist at Peter Harrington Many writers need isolation to get their creative juices flowing. Virginia Woolf reckoned that women writers of her generation simply needed a...
Enter The World of Jazz
A little over a hundred years ago they asked “What is jazz”? To which Louis Armstrong made the timeless reply, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. But a perhaps more troubling question
still is how do you collect jazz? Our experts have put togeher a remarkable gathering of 50 items which evoke the ephemeral moment and improvisatory spirit of jazz.
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