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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory

A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.

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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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  • Oval heads. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Portrait of Sir Charles Wheatstone, half-length to right. Oval
  • Portrait of William Cooper, in oval
  • Portrait of John Brown, smiling, in oval
  • Portrait of William Cruikshank, profile in oval
  • Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, head and shoulders, oval.
  • Portrait of J.C Carpue. Bust in oval.
  • Portrait of Euclid, in oval cartouche on pedestal
  • Portrait of Sir George Ent (1604-1689), oval
  • Thomas Orme Dudfield, head and shoulders in oval.
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