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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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The poetic language of health

When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.

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What is hysteria?

Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies

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  • A quotation from the psalms with a border of lilies. Chromolithograph.
  • A quotation from the Bible with a border of roses and lilies. Chromolithograph.
  • The skeletal remains of a frog above a lake with water lilies. Etching.
  • Floral bouquet, with some lilies. Engraving by N. de Poilly, ca.1660, after himself.
  • Eight plants, including two mariposa lilies and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Eight plants, including two mariposa lilies and a monkey flower: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • The Archangel Gabriel holding lilies and pointing to a dove representing the Holy Ghost. Engraving, 17--.
  • Two sprigs of flowers, including lilies, carnations and Auricula, meant as designs for embroidery. Etching with engraving after W. Kilburn, 1775.
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • The Virgin sets aside her Bible as the angel appears, holding out his hand and bearing lilies. Engraving after F. Barocci (?).
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Perspective Tour with Rosamund Lily West

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