Stories
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The meaning of trauma is wound
Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
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Red River Settlement, Canada: a Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 575268i- Pictures
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Dr Mackellar and Red Cross staff crossing the Morava river after the Battle before Alexinatz, Serbia. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
Durand, Godefroy, 1832-1896.Reference: 20729i- Books
Health status and services, January 1952 : economic base study...Arkansas-White-Red River Basins / by Rollo H. Britten and Maryland Y. Pennell.
Britten, Rollo H. (Rollo Herbert), 1889-1981.Date: [1952?]- Books
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A description of the English province of Carolana, by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane. As also of the great and famous River Meschacebe, or Missisipi, The Five vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent. Together with an account of the commodities of the Growth and Production of the said province. And a preface containing some considerations on the consequences of the French making settlements there. By Daniel Coxe, Esq;
Coxe, Daniel, 1673-1739.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats, one flying the Red Ensign, on the river. Coloured engraving by T. Tagg, 1797, after E. Dayes.
Dayes, Edward, 1763-1804.Date: 10 February 1797Reference: 20392i