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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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Witches

Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.

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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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  • A male écorché figure holding the skin of his legs in his right hand and the skin of his arms in his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure holding the skin of his legs in his right hand and the skin of his arms in his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
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