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The hell of hay fever

After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.

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Seeking the hoarder in literature

As she strives to deepen her understanding of hoarding, Georgie Evans turns to books. But depictions of hoards and hoarders are few and often sparse, except in one surprising place.

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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • Punishments of Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • Hell. Engraving after Buonamico di Martino called Buffalmacco.
  • Snakes and Ladders (Game of Heaven & Hell)
  • Snakes and Ladders (Game of Heaven & Hell)
  • Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • The giant Antaeus carries Virgil and Dante to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The damned writhe in boiling cauldrons; representing hell. Woodcut.
  • The harrowing of hell (?). Engraving by G. Ladame.
  • The miser in hell. Mezzotint after D. Teniers the younger.
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