Stories
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Lazy
Are you being lazy… or just finding your peace?
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
Catalogue
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The germ of laziness : Rockefeller philanthropy and public health in the New South / John Ettling.
Ettling, John, 1944-Date: 1981
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A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: [1497?]Reference: 570763i- Books
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A rod for the sluggard; or the great evil of idleness represented. By John Mac Gowan.
Macgowan, John, 1726-1780.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
Elizabeth Williams : Maid of Honour / by H. D. Richards.
Richards, H. D.Date: [2004]
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A doctor tells his patient that the patient is lazy, not ill. Process print after T. Evans, 1934.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1934Reference: 15519i