Will and Lyra navigate the dangers of Will's Oxford. Lyra meets an unsettling man while investigating some trepanned skulls in a museum, before heading off to explore further mysteries about Dust with an overworked physicist. Will delves into the archives to learn (a little) more about the strange disappearance of his father…

Join us as we get confused about how post works, speculate about dark matter and reminisce on our favourite Oxford museums!

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A video of someone demonstrating how to use (the very fiddly) microfilm in a microfilm reader can be found here.

Some very general information about the I Ching can be found here.

A rough introduction to Dark matter here.

Here is the full letter from Keats to his brothers, which Mary Malone quotes in this chapter. You can read more on this concept of ‘Negative Capability’ that Keats wrote about here.

Here is an interesting article on the history of radar installations in the Arctic.

Continuing the Virtual Tour of Oxford:

Inside the Covered Market

Outside and inside the Natural History Museum, within which is the Pitt Rivers museum (museum within the museum!)

Display case in the Pitt Rivers Museum where Lyra sees her Arctic clothing

Photo of Philip Pullman in the Pitt Rivers Museum, with the Trepanned skulls and instruments which inspired this scene in the book.

Park which Lyra consults the alethiometer in

Denys Wilkinson Building (part of the dept. of Physics) within which the real-world LUX-ZEPELIN Dark Matter research project is housed.

You can view the wonderful collections at the Ashmolean museum online, here. If you want to view what it looks like for Will when he takes refuge here in this chapter, then you can view inside the museum here.

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