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A brief history of tattoos
| Amy Olson
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
| Katherine Harvey
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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Sex in graphic novels
| Stephen Lowther
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.