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Celebrating our soft toys

After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.

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When civilisation made people sick

Sickness from nervous exhaustion is not a new thing. Over a hundred years ago, neurasthenia afflicted society’s ‘brain-workers’.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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  • Bears and dogs fighting: two bears are shown biting, and being bitten by, a pack of dogs. Etching with engraving by J. Fittler after F. Snyders, 1809.
  • Pathological bones of pleistocene cave-bears, A-K
  • A group of men spearing two bears to death aided by their dogs ferociously biting the bears. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol.
  • Handbill advertising The Lancashire prodigy. Two trunks and sets of limbs, but one head. Bears date in pencil: August 1838.
  • Visitez la tanière des psys / PsyGay, Bears' Den, ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Visitez la tanière des psys / PsyGay, Bears' Den, ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Six bears in an underground cave. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Dresden, Germany: bears playing in the bear garden of the Elector of Saxony. Etching.
  • An X-ray tube, common type. Inscribed 'Instanta' Tube - Macalister-Wiggin Pattern. Sole British Manufacturers Newton and Wright. Bears Ministry of Munitions Label.
  • The world campaign for bears / Libearty: World Society for the Protection of Animals.
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