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Witches
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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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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Race, religion and the Black Madonna
| Daniela Vasco
Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.
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The birth of the public museum
| Elissavet Ntoulia
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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London, city of lost hospitals
| Dr Tom BoltonSimon Norfolk
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.