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A short history of wellbeing through exercise

During the current pandemic, billions of people around the world are confined to home, making mood-boosting daily exercise indispensable. Discover how humans from the ancient Greeks onwards have realised the benefits of physical activity.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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Audrey and her family

In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.

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Who was Audrey Amiss?

Elena Carter introduces the vast collection left behind by artist Audrey Amiss, who documented her life in astonishing detail.

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  • A positive cure for sick headache : Carter's Little Liver Pills / Carter Medicine Co.
  • A positive cure for sick headache : Carter's Little Liver Pills / Carter Medicine Co.
  • A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.
  • A legless beggar asking the Wandering Jew for alms in a Spanish square. Etching by Frederick Carter, 1928.
  • A monument positioned near the military hospital in Barbados, with passers-by. Lithograph by J. M. Carter, c. 1837.
  • A man in part-uniform and part drag , with a dog, in war-time. Colour process print after Reg Carter, 194-.
  • A man in part-uniform and part drag , with a dog, in war-time. Colour process print after Reg Carter, 194-.
  • A street scene in Cairo with a street seller at work. Coloured lithograph by J. C. Bourne, c. 1840, after O. B. Carter.
  • A fisherman is standing on a rock with his nets and baskets strapped to his back. Mezzotint by J. Jones after G. Carter.
  • A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.
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