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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
| Julia Nurse
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
| Estelle ParanqueKathleen Arundell
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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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.