Stories from small museumsThis book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change.

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter

Shirin and Mona

terror and faith

From the principles of the perfect sandwich to seasoning your stock

and the troubled Sir John Franklin

bark is stripped from trees and beaten into cloth

as a labour of love

Johanna Basford lends her signature style of inky illustration to a series of brand new inkscapes and themes

poignant and radiantly intelligent

as well as the victim's many cousins and relations

Captured and sent to the notoriously cruel islands of exile

but they seem to sneak into our minds anyway