Stories
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
Catalogue
- Books
Education and training in the care and use of laboratory animals : a guide for developing institutional programs / Committee on Educational Programs in Laboratory Animal Science, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Date: 1991
- Books
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Royal Army Service Corps training.
Date: 1933-
- Ephemera
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The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
Our Dumb Friends' League.Date: [between 1930 and 1939]- Books
Laboratory animal welfare research : primates : proceedings of a symposium / organized by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, held at the Royal Holloway and Bedford, New College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, 21st April 1988.
Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
Animal experimentation : a student guide to balancing the issues / by Vaughan Monamy.
Monamy, Vaughan, 1958-Date: [1996], ©1996