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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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Journeying home

A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.

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  • Dublin Castle. Process print, 1904.
  • Dublin Castle. Process print, 1904.
  • Sir Philip Crampton's memorial in Dublin
  • Sir Philip Crampton's memorial in Dublin
  • Inauguration of the Royal Albert Hall, Dublin.
  • Miss Kennedy (?). Photograph by Lafayette Studio, Dublin Branch.
  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Line engraving after T. Jacobsen.
  • The New Military Infirmary, Dublin, Ireland. Wood engraving, 1790.
  • Royal Charter School, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland: perspective view. Etching.
  • The great refracting telescope constructed at Dublin for the Vienna Observatory.
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