Mah-Jongg of Eltham Palace: Victim of Vogue?
For the bright young things of the 1920s, exotic pets were the latest craze – and no one seemed too bothered about the ethics of the trend…
Missing Halves: On Love, Completion & Compassion
To think that someone else completes you has become something of a modern day taboo. Self-reliance and independence are in. Farewell dependence, so long…
The Connection Between the Visible and the Invisible
Dr Hugh Welch Diamond was a Victorian psychiatrist who believed that photography could offer new ways to examine the mind of the mentally ill…
On Synaesthesia & Individuality
Synaesthesia is a phenomenon where the senses intermingle — a union of sensations that are normally experienced separately, such as sound and colour or…
Wearing a Book: Texts vs. Textiles
In his In Search of Lost Time, the French writer Marcel Proust makes a comparison between writing a book and making a dress. His narrator, who is just…
