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A wee spot of bother

Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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The ‘undesirable epileptic’

Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.

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How do advertisers get inside our heads?

Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.

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  • Civil engineering: the Menai suspension bridge. Engraving.
  • Civil engineering: several bridges. Engraving by Garner.
  • Civil engineering: the Kiefe suspension bridge. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Civil engineering: sections of various dock walls. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Civil engineering: a floating dock in Spain. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Civil engineering: construction drawings for the Thames Embankment. Coloured drawing, 1865.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by T. Picken.
  • Civil engineering: canals (below), and a photometer (above). Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Civil engineering: three types of wooden bridge. Engraving by R. Roffe, 1848.
  • Civil engineering: diagrams of canal locks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1800.
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