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The cinchona tree, malaria and colonisation

Ever since the discovery of cinchona bark as a treatment for malaria in 17th-century South America, the cinchona tree has accompanied European colonisation around the world. Kim Walker tracks the human and ecological impact of this global commodity.

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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men

The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.

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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

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  • Passage du Quindui, dans la Cordillere des Andes
  • Zoological Society of London: an eagle of the Andes sitting on a rock. Etching.
  • The physical and moral condition of the children and young persons employed in mines and manufactures / Illustrated by extracts from the Reports of the Commissioners. For inquiring into the employment of children and young persons in mines and collieries, and in the trades and manufactures.
  • Meat matters : meat and fat / [Meat and Livestock Commission].
  • Meat matters : meat and fat / [Meat and Livestock Commission].
  • The muscles and tendons of the leg and the arm (?). Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, and black chalk and pencil, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Advertisement for J. G. Bevan and Company, chemists and apothecaries, circa 1820
  • A moustachioed man with top hat and cane. Pen and ink and collage.
  • Leaves and twigs of elm (Ulmus) and privet (Ligustrum). Watercolour and pencil drawings.
  • Carallia corymbosa Arn.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate inflorescence, fruit and seed and cross-sections of fruit and flowers.
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Maladies and Medicine – Tudors, tonics and sickly Stuarts

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Phobias and Manias with Kate Summerscale and Stephen Grosz

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HIV and AIDS

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