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A journey through slime

Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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The bishop’s profitable sex workers

How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.

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What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

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  • Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
  • Hot Baths, Wiesbaden: figures strolling at the source. Engraving by E. Grünewald after J. Fey.
  • Balneology: Roman bath house; hot and cold steam baths
  • Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street: the Hararah or hot-chamber.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Hot baths in Buxton, Derbyshire: the exterior of the buildings viewed from a hill opposite. Photograph by Poulton.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
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