Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An amalgamation of fiction and biography, The Bluest of Blues tells the life story of Anne Atkins, botanist and ...
British botanist Anna Atkins used cyanotypes—photographic paper that turns blue in the sun—to publish the world’s first book of photographs in 1843, a compendium of her extensive dried seaweed ...