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Free Thinking Writers and their notebooks Writers' notebooks

Images courtesy of respective writers and the British Library

  • The inside of one of Bidisha's notebooks
  • Map of animal-themed code names for German WW2 'Himmelbett' radar stations plus of German fighter-bombers
  • Notes (water-damaged)  on competing British and German radar technologies
  • William Blake’s notebook draft of ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ for Songs of Experience, 1794
  • Image from  Wilfred Owen's notebook
  • A page from Alice's Adventures Under Ground manuscript by Lewis Carroll
  • Bidisha's collected notebooks,  1993-2014

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  • Free Thinking—Writers and their notebooks

    Lawrence Norfolk, AS Byatt, Wendy Cope, Bidisha and David Mitchell on writers' notebooks.

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  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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