Stories
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Book extract
Out of the mouth trap
After 15 years of speech therapy, Jonty Claypole decided to make peace with his stammer. He explores our fear of disfluency, revealing how accepting it could actually increase our creativity and persuasiveness.
- Article
Are people born violent?
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
- Article
Nurturing my autistic, gender-questioning child
As mother of an autistic child who questions her gender, Jude Lax describes cherishing her growing daughter as she explores her identity.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Sri Dâlada Mâligâwa, Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon): the temple of the sacred tooth of the Buddha. Watercolour, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 580986i
- Pictures
- Online
An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21358i- Books
- Online
Peasant intellectuals : anthropology and history in Tanzania / Steven Feierman.
Feierman, Steven, 1940-Date: [1990], ©1990
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0005686: Intichiuma ceremony of the Unjiamba and Intichiuma ceremony of the Quatcha, Central Australia
Date: 23 September 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/46/97Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive