Stories
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Archives and manuscripts
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Spinney, Augustine
Spinney, AugustineDate: early 16th century - mid 17th centuryReference: MS.757- Books
The early modern subject : self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume / Udo Thiel.
Thiel, Udo, 1954-Date: 2011- Videos
To define true madness.
Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Heberden Collection
The Heberden LibraryDate: 1684-1994Reference: SA/HEB