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The girl with no name

When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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  • Matthew Boulton. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon, 1812, after W. Evans after Sir W. Beechey, 1799.
  • Sir Ronald Ross standing next to a bust of himself, and Janko Bragovitch (sculptor). Photograph by Grove, Son and Boulton, 1926.
  • William Hunter: his home and anatomy school in 16 Great Windmill Street, London, England. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton after a watercolour.
  • Ernest Boulton in drag. Photograph by London Stereoscopic Company, ca. 1871.
  • Ernest Boulton in drag. Photograph by London Stereoscopic Company, ca. 1871.
  • Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
  • Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.
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