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Befriending heavy breathers
| Mel GrantPhillip Job
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Making sunstroke insanity
| Kristin D HusseyGergo Varga
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
| Rachel BennettCatherine CoxHilary Marland
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
| Taryn Cain
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.