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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
| Cheryl Porter
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
| Katherine Harvey
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
| Julianna Poole-SawyerKathleen Arundell
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
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Getting under the skin
| Taryn Cain
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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- Interview
Refugee health on a pound a day
| Vanesha Kirita SinghBenjamin Gilbert
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.