Georgiana Houghton, the Victorian Artist who Channeled the Spirits of the Dead
Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death…
Liberating the Library: The Hidden Gems On Your University Shelves
Browsing through the bookshelves of your modern university library – have you ever had a look at one of the conspicuously…
Mesmerism, Madness and Witchcraft in Jane Eyre
After first meeting Jane, Rochester furthers their relationship by masquerading as a gypsy to discover her true impressions of him. His voice ‘wraps’ her…
Weekly Roundup of Curiosities
#1 Curator Andrea Hart provides an audio slideshow of Rare Treasures. Which brings together some of the Museum’s most highly…
The Extraordinary Life of Marianne North
Marianne North was an early female explorer, naturalist and painter. Her life, as she described it, was one of “wander…
Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity
~ Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which attempted to categorise and tell…