Stories
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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero
Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.
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How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
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What happy endings teach us in childhood
Kate Wilkinson explores why, in quest fiction, good must triumph over evil, and what that means both for childhood dreams and adult realities.
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Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
Catalogue
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Hero and Leander, a poem.
Musaeus, Grammaticus.Date: 1720?]- Books
Hero-dust / by James Kemble.
Kemble, James, 1900-Date: [1936]- Books
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Hero, and Leander, a poem. From the Greek of Musaeus.
Musaeus, Grammaticus.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
Hero confronting a dragon amid waves and lightning. Colour woodcut by Yoshitsuya, 1843/1846.
Yoshitsuya (Kōko Mankichi), 1822-1866.Date: 1843/1846Reference: 36413i- Books
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Hero and Leander: a poem by Musaeus, translated from the Greek by L. Eusden of Trinity-College, Cambridge.
Musaeus, Grammaticus.Date: MDCCL. [1750]