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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.

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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages

Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.

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Surviving as an asexual person in a heteronormative world

Experiencing no sexual attraction led Seleena Laverne Daye to feel she was somehow failing as an adult. But she found a way to claim her identity and to thrive.

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  • The surprising little man : being a person of twenty-two years of age, yet no more than three feet two inches high ...
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • These are to give notice, to all persons of quality and others, that there is newly come to this place a little Scotch man ... : he being but two foot and six inches high, and is near upon sixty years of age ...
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Re-engagement owing to enormous success of Joe Elvin in a personally conducted trip on The Tram ("Fares, please.") ... : The extraordinary, phenomenal colossal Russian Fat Girl, Miss Lucie, the heaviest girl in the world. Aged 16 years. Weight 350 lbs. ... / Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E.
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