Stories
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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Inscriptions on Boxes: Enema Syringes and Stomach Pumps
Date: 19th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Col/110Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Inscriptions en miroir sur poteries gallo-romaines / par Marcel Baudouin.
Baudouin, Marcel, 1860-Date: 1902- Books
Inscriptions of Venkatapatiraya's time from 1530 A.D. to 1542 A.D. / translated and edited by V. Vijayaraghavacharya ; with a summary of inscriptions, index, etc.
Date: 1998- Books
Inscriptions in the cuneiform character : from Assyrian monuments, discovered by A. H. Layard, D.C.L.
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.Date: 1851- Books
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Inscriptions on the monument of the Right Honourable George Baillie, of Jerriswood, Esq; and Lady Grisell Baillie, at Mellerstain. On the front. Built by George Baillie, of Jerriswood, and Lady Grisell Baillie. A.D. MDCCXXXVI.
Date: 1750?]