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The sickness in the wellness industry

In recovery from anorexia, Gwen Smith began to realise how the wellness industry needs its followers to feel bad about themselves in order to make money out them.

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The secret hystery of a womb

A Renaissance image of a caesarean section inspired Anna Blundy to recount the story of a hidden, perhaps mysterious part of her body.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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  • A travelling peddler with a tray of goods crying up his wares while on the road. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • An itinerant salesman selling small reproductions of antique and modern sculptures. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Nice New, an eccentric street peddler of Reading. Engraving by R. Cooper.
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by D. Deuchar after J. van der Vliet.
  • A country pedlar and his wife walking the countryside and selling liqueurs. Etching by P.E. Moitte after D. Teniers II.
  • An itinerant salesman in top hat and ragged clothes selling sweets or pies from a basket under his arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by J. van der Vliet.
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by D. Deuchar after J. van der Vliet.
  • A country pedlar and his wife walking the countryside and selling liqueurs. Etching by P.E. Moitte after D. Teniers II.
  • A spectacles vendor showing his wares to an old woman on her doorstep. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade.
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