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Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

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How to thrive in lockdown

Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.

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Witches

Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.

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The trouble with too many things

Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.

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  • The Nabob of Arcot with his Prime Minister. Gouache drawing.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The wife of the Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • The wife of the Prime Minister (Kralahom) of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
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