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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

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Leaving Mexico and finding refuge in hope

In Mexico, violence of all kinds – organised, street, domestic – is accepted as normal. From the UK, Laura Morales speaks out and fights to help those suffering back home.

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Good animals, bad humans?

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

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You know the drill

Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.

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  • Scull of a public woman, remarkable for the depravity of her morals, her great propensity to steal and cruellty.
  • The physical and moral condition of the chil
  • Manuel d'éducation physique, gymnastique et morale / Par le colonel Amoros.
  • Manuel d'éducation physique, gymnastique et morale / Par le colonel Amoros.
  • Twenty-five moral tales. Line engraving after [R.] Dighton after B. Franklin.
  • A young (homoeopathic?) physician converses with a young woman on moral and physical matters. Coloured engraving.
  • 'An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour', by William Cooke
  • An inquiry into certain errors relative to insanity; and their consequences: physical, moral, and civil / By George Man Burrows.
  • Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.
  • The essayes or covnsels, civill and morall / of Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscovnt St. Alban.
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