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Historical ways to hang on to your hair

Could upper-class hair-hygiene regimes cause baldness, or does hair health depend on a blast of deadly mercury? Maisie Jenkins scours the archives for historic follicle care.

  • In pictures

Deadly stinks and life-saving aromas in plague-stricken London

In the plague-ravaged London of 1665, could perfume really save your life?

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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  • Hanging of 38 Sioux Indians, 1862
  • Human skin hanging in frame.
  • The execution of Father Garnet by hanging. Wood engraving.
  • A woman hanging herself on a beam. Wood engraving.
  • Sarawak: beehives hanging in a Sea Dayak's house. Photograph.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - 'hanging corner' boil
  • The hanging of Hassan Bey in Constantinople. Wood engraving, 1876.
  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • Kakejiku hanging scrolls depicting heroic figures. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.
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