Stories
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A walk through other people’s expectations
The steep path isn’t the only thing Caroline Butterwick has to navigate on her Lakeland hike. Always aware of other people’s expectations, she continually monitors how her disability might seem to strangers.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Being trans in the world of sex work
Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.
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Horsemen and soldiers on a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
Reference: 27051i
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Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
Reference: 27041i
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Soldiers leading shackled prisoners through a narrow pass in the mountains. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 46785i
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Mountain laurel or calico bush (Kalmia latifolia): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
Date: 29 December 1811Reference: 25537i
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Lucerne, Switzerland: the Rigi railway (Rigibahn) crossing a mountain pass. Photograph, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 575639iPart of: American, European and Australasian landscapes and portraits. Photographs, ca. 1880.