Stories
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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A wheelchair in the world
Five years ago, Jan Grue, author of ‘I Live a Life Like Yours’, became a father. A wheelchair user since age eight, Grue explores how parenthood helped him reimagine his relationship with his wheelchair.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Father Time holding a scythe: four studies. Etching by R. Earlom, 1787, after G.B. Cipriani.
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.Date: Feb.ry 1st 1787Reference: 2952442i- Pictures
Love conquering time: Cupids seize Father Time's hourglass, break the blade of his scythe, and crown two hearts smouldering with the fire of love. Colour lithograph by E. Wattier after F. Boucher.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.Date: [between 1855 and 1866]Reference: 2853397i- Pictures
Prudence and Time. Engraving by G. Audran, 1675, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: 1675Reference: 2897457i
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Sunshine (left): a woman with a jug; darkness (right): a witch with time and death. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 12.1.71 [12 January 1971]Reference: 2897405iPart of: Adamson Collection
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Women personifying the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, are protected by Father Time, while a woman personifying antiquity points to the value of ancient coins. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after P. Berchet.
Berchet, Pierre, 1659-1720.Date: [1717]Reference: 35741i