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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Book design, dissected

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.

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‘My Hair Is Not…’

Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.

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  • Child wearing a halo fixator
  • A heavily jewelled Lakshmi with a halo. Chromolithograph.
  • Female figurine with halo, probably amuletic, bronze, South American Indian
  • Geography: a halo around the sun, at the Pole. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • A Sikh man with a halo sitting on a chair. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • The prophet Muhammad with a halo riding on a horse and greeted by the peoples of north Africa. Gouache painting.
  • William Gladstone in a church, a halo around his head, holding a sword lettered "Disestablishment" behind his back. Engraving, ca. 1880.
  • A face with large eyes and a condom as a halo; recommending use of condoms as good behaviour: advertisement by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A mythological scene: a man kneels with folded hands as he sees a vision of a boy with a halo around his head, as other people look on in amazement. Gouache painting by an Indic artist.
  • A man with a lamp shade on his head surrounded by a halo of light with the words "réveillez-vous" (Wake up!) across his jumper; representing enlightenment about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Glen Baxter, 1993.
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