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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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Reversing the psychiatric gaze

Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.

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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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  • Left, the banner of the Spanish Inquisition; right banner of the Inquisition in Goa. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • M0006601: Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition
  • M0006601: Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition
  • M0006601: Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition
  • M0006601: Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • The procession of the Spanish Inquisition in Goa entering the church with standards and banners. Engraving.
  • Accused heretics standing before a tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Sevilla. Etching by E. Moyse.
  • An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition held in a church. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • Galileo Galilei at his trial by the Inquisition in Rome in 1633. Photograph of a painting.
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