Stories
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Votive offerings for healing
Votive offerings, known as ex-votos, have been a vibrant part of devotional practice since ancient times and, Louisa McKenzie suggests, they still have a place in the secular world of today.
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When kids are offered free cosmetic surgery
When they were a child, Jasmine Owens’ dentist offered to break their jaw – for free. It would make them look better, he said. Read on to find out whether or not they agreed.
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Vivid nights, dream-filled days
Each night, intense and memorable dreams create another life for Katie da Cunha Lewin. Find out how her waking and dreaming selves have become enmeshed, allowing her powerful self-knowledge.
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Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
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Offerings being laid before Kālī who is dancing on the recumbent Siva. Gouache.
Reference: 46019i- Archives and manuscripts
M0009073: Six terracotta votive offerings
Date: October 1944
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007995: Woodcut showing votive offerings of wax
Date: July 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/69/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004726: Ex-votos, or votive offerings
Date: 3 September 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/19Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000028: Two Roman votive offerings carved in stone
Date: 03 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/27Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
