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Audrey and her family

In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.

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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

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Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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  • Votive picture: three people pray to the Virgin and Child for a patient in bed, a woman mops the patient's brow and a surgeon lets blood from the foot. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: three people pray to the Virgin and Child for a patient in bed, a woman mops the patient's brow and a surgeon lets blood from the foot. Oil painting.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • A cock, representing Theodorus de Cock (Theodorus de Kock). Engraving attributed to Carel Allard, 1705.
  • An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • An American serviceman clutching the letters "VD" like prison-bars from which he yearns to be released. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
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