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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
| Mary-Anne Boermans
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Getting sexy with cinnamon
| Kirsten Riley
Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.
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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
| Niven GovindenBenjamin Gilbert
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
| Estelle ParanqueKathleen Arundell
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
| Ngunan AdamuAmaal Said
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
| Anna Faherty
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.