Hope and Fear

The History Collections website and History Day celebrated the 2016 Being Human festival by posting about Hope and Fear in library and archives collections. The resulting blog series is below.

• Hope and Fear in a box
• Fighting fire with the sucking worm fire engine
• Charles Le Brun’s science of human expression: it’s all in the eyebrows
• Hope and Fear: William Belcher in 1914
• Fear and loathing in Deptford
• The great eruption of Mount Vesuvius1779
• Scrofula and the royal touch
• Fear at the Wellcome Library
• Hope and Fear in collections: The Bishopsgate Institute