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Neuroqueering comics

Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper considers how comic-zines use the distinctive qualities of zines to explore some of the complex connections between memory, autobiography, disability, neurodivergence and queer identity.

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Befriending heavy breathers

Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.

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Titans in the landscape

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Why we no longer keep our dead at home

Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.

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  • Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley
  • Autobiography ... A short abstract of a long life / with a memoir by Emil Novak.
  • Annie Besant : an autobiography ... / [Annie Wood Besant].
  • The autobiography of Sir Felix Semon ... / edited by Henry C. Semon ... and Thomas A. McIntyre.
  • The life of John Collins Warren, M.D. : comp. chiefly from his autobiography and journals / by Edward Warren.
  • The Indian Punjabi Mir Munshi Sultan Mohammad, head of the English department of the secretarait of Emir Abd or-Rahman. Translator and compiler of the autobiography of the Emire and Afghanistan ambassador to London.
  • The Indian Punjabi Mir Munshi Sultan Mohammad, head of the English department of the secretarait of Emir Abd or-Rahman. Translator and compiler of the autobiography of the Emire and Afghanistan ambassador to London..
  • The Indian Punjabi Mir Munshi Sultan Mohammad, head of the English department of the secretarait of Emir Abd or-Rahman. Translator and compiler of the autobiography of the Emire. Kabul and and Afghanistan ambassador to London.
  • Saint Teresa of Avila, the Reformer of the Carmelite Order. Born in Avila in 1515, died in 1582. Known as the Reformer of the Carmelite Order, and author of a fascinating autobiography. No connection with medicine. Celebrated on the 15th October.
  • The dance of death: Death finds an author writing his life. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
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