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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy

Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?

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The men who meddled with nature

The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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  • A bittern and one of its feathers. Etching.
  • A tall woman wears short feathers in her headdress and a short woman wears tall feathers in hers. Etching by James Gillray, 1795.
  • A woman sits working with baskets and boxes of feathers. Etching.
  • A falcon or kestrel and one of its tail feathers. Etching by Eliza D.
  • A New Holland cassowary and two enlarged feathers. Etching by P. Mazell after Lt. Watts.
  • A man in uniform wearing a large three-cornered hat with peacock feathers in it. Lithograph.
  • India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and peacock feathers. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Fifteen heads of women wearing the newest fashionable head-dresses of 1831; also a hat with feathers. Coloured engraving.
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