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- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
| Jill BurkeSteven Pocock
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
- Article
The power of unicorns
| Muriel Bailly
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
- Book extract
- Book extract
How to stay together while keeping apart
| Vivek H MurthyKathleen Arundell
Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.
- Article
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
| Anna Faherty
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.