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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
| Cassidy Phillips
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Coasting to catastrophe
| Charlotte SleighGergo Varga
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
| Briony Hudson
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Diagnosing the past
| Joanne Edge
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.