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Dazzling luxury
| Ruth Garde
As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.
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Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
| Shelley Angelie SaggarThomas S G Farnetti
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
| Allison C Meier
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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How slums make people sick
| Emily Sargent
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
| Thomas Parkinson
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.