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Picturing the Skull

Lunchtime Lecture: An exploration of the skull as a pictorial device

John Smeaton (1724-1792) and the Eddystone Lighthouse

Lighthouse keepers were certainly used to living in isolation; in this week's guest blog Edward Maunder tells the story of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, situated 9 miles south of Rame Head off the Cornish coast.

Travels in the Boudoir; or, how to travel the world while staying at home

If you are beginning to tire of the present lockdown you may perhaps find some solace in this little book of travels in the boudoir, or how to travel the world without leaving the house - something, it would seem, that women especially were rather good at in the early 19th century.

Our Region Revealed Jigsaws

A fun way to engage with our collections, these pictures are all newly digitised illustrations from Our Region Revealed project. Whatever your age. Each puzzle can be adapted - from a 6-piece puzzle for little ones to a 1000-piece puzzle for experts - you decide!

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and his Library of Congress

Our latest Books in Isolation blog post

“Rabbit Food”: The Romantic roots of Vegetarianism

Lunchtime Lecture: “By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system”-
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet