There are many different types of science. Some are loud and explosive, some are quiet and precise, and some are just kind of smelly. The MA project I'm working on this year definitely falls in that last category and I apologise to my fellow students for that.

Michael Greenwood on making a joint stool, starting from a log.

Lucy Cokes on the treatment of a green vellum account binding from the records of the Vandewall family copperas factories.