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Plant portraits
| Julia Nurse
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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Medieval doodles
| Jack Litchfield
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
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A body apart from the head
| Rob Bidder
We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.
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When wounds replace words
| Jules MontagueSteven Pocock
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.