Frances Larson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham and the author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World and Severed. She lives in Durham.
6 Ebooks by Frances Larson
Frances Larson: Infinity of Things
An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Wellcome planned a great museum filled with treasures from all corners …
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€19.75
Frances Larson: Infinity of Things
An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Wellcome planned a great museum filled with treasures from all corners …
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€19.69
Frances Larson: Severed
Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for …
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€13.74
Frances Larson: Severed
This book is about the history of beheading. The content includes: "Shrinking Human Heads", "Trophy of Human Heads on the Battlefield", "Guillotine Culture in Europe", …
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€14.57
Frances Larson: Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
A “wide-ranging and thoughtful” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls. The human head is exceptional. It accom …
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€24.99
Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores
In the first decades of the 20th century, five women – Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco – arrived at Oxford to take the newly …
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€14.91
