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What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

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The bishop’s profitable sex workers

How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.

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Living with less for spiritual gain

Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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  • Nun who accompanied F. Nightingale to the Crimea, 1854
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
  • Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Coloured lithograph by G.L. Lee.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying nun. Colour stipple engraving.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: operating theatre with nun and nurse. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
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