Stories
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
Catalogue
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Mimes from the pantomimime; representing British politicians with Queen Victoria at Christmas 1837. Lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: 7 January 1838Reference: 608230iPart of: Sketches of satire- Books
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Patriotism: a political satire. By Cato Redivivus.
Cato Redivivus.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
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Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone and John Bright depicted as bees around a beehive; representing the United Kingdom General Election of 1880. Engraving by W. Dewane after himself, March 1880.
Dewane, William.Date: March 1880Reference: 568609iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.
Date: [1879]Reference: 568558iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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A Lancashire burglar, dressed in rags and smoking a pipe, with his dog, represented as a supporter of the Conservative Party. Lithograph (?), March 1880.
Date: March 1880Reference: 568613iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.