Marginalia are notes, comments, drawings or marks written in the margins of a book or document.

People study marginalia because they reveal how past readers interpreted a text, historical contents and debates and personal thoughts of famous or significant readers and commentary.

Marginalia began almost as soon as people started writing. The practice has a tradition of at least 2,000 years with ancient marginalia in Greek and Roman manuscripts, hundreds of years of medieval marginalia up until to the 14th century and after 1450 annotations in printed books right through to modern times.

Aligned to this tradition, we seek to add the conversation about mental health issues and wellbeing, challenge ideas and help human beings to be better connected to themselves and others in ways that support authentic mental health recovery and insight and the development of helpful tools. Sometimes this process, this conversation needs to occur “in the margins” which is why our focus is across a range of resources, tools, writing connected to themes around mental health experiences and ongoing research.