Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 26 October 2012
The treasures of the Wellcome Library, medical curiosities, and London’s languages.
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Wellcome Library Sets Mystery Object Quiz
Our good friends over at the Wellcome Library have set a fiendish quiz for New Scientist. They’ve picked ten objects from Wellcome’s peerless collection of oddments and obfuscated each item’s identity by throwing in alternative labels. Can you work out the correct answers? If you …
In Patterson’s Own Hand
Just to prove that we weren’t having you on, with that whole Patterson Challenge thing – walking 15 odd miles in challenging weather conditions and photographing all and sundry with frozen fingers – joy abounding, the relevant pages of Patterson’s diary are now available online! …
The Patterson Challenge
150 years ago today, Victorian tourist, James Patterson returned to Manchester after a festivity packed sight-seeing sojourn in Camden with friends. It’s quite likely you took a post prandial walk over Christmas. Perhaps you hit Oxford Street to look at the sales, wander the deserted …
17 Boxes Of Smut From The Euston Road
Libraries and whores are not natural bedfellows. Yet in the Wellcome Library on Euston Road you can work your way though more loose women than Genghis Khan on his gap year. The centre holds the world’s foremost collection of tart cards — those colourful adverts …
