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Yoga gets physical
| Lalita Kaplish
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
| Nazlin BhimaniGergo Varga
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
| Lalita Kaplish
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
| Shane Ewen
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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Vivekananda’s journey
| Lalita Kaplish
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.