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Laboratory Books What Heaven Looks Like Comments on a Strange Wordless Book
£7.99
Laboratory Books Captain Cuttles Mailbag
An amusing and possibly informative anthology of Notes and Queries, the Victorian magazine for which no subject was too odd or obscure
£17.99
Laboratory Books Autograph Album
Like many middle-class Boston girls of the late 19th century, Annie McFarlane kept an autograph album, in which her schoolmates, family, and neighbours wrote messages of friendship and scraps of sentimental verse. This keepsake, with its stamped and coloured binding, was passed down through McFarlane''s family to her great-grandson, the independent scholar Theodore Dawes. Fascinated by the faded inscriptions in so many varied hands - from the spiky script of Andrew McFarlane (Father) to the laboured cursive of young Flossie L. Law - Dawes undertook an arduous course of archival research aimed at uncovering the identity and biographical details of everyone who signed the album.The result is this book, in which each page of Annie McFarlane''s autograph album is reproduced in facsimile, along with the biography of the person who signed it. Together these brief yet telling portraits reveal the texture of life in Boston circa 1890, as well as in Vanceboro, Maine, where the McFarlan
£16.19
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd The Royal Institution
The Royal Institution has been at the forefront of scientific innovation, discovery and communication since its founding in 1799. Illustrious figures associated with the Royal Institution include Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday and Ernest Rutherford. In this latest addition to Scala's Director's Choice series, Katherine Mathieson shares some of her favourite aspects of the Royal Institution, including Faraday's laboratory, books, pictures and objects. From its Grade 1-listed building in central London, the Royal Institution connects the public with scientists through talks, events and activities for people of all ages and backgrounds, including the famous Christmas Lectures. Founded by Michael Faraday, these lectures were an exciting new way of presenting science to young people and they continue today. This enjoyable, richly illustrated guide unlocks hidden histories of the Royal Institution and reveals how science transforms our lives.
£9.95
