Stories
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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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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
Catalogue
- Books
Under the knife : a history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations / Arnold van de Laar.
Laar, Arnold van deDate: 2018- Books
Which treatment is best? : spoof or proof? / Teddy Bader.
Bader, Teddy F., 1953-Date: 2023- Books
Scattered limbs : a medical dreambook / by Iain Bamforth.
Bamforth, IainDate: 2020- Videos
Bedlam.
Date: 2013