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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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How stories bring us together

Elif Shafak considers how hard it is to be heard in our divided world, but how listening can nurture wisdom, connection and empathy.

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  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By Capt. John Graunt, fellow of the Royal society. With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, air, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Two men walking above a city; representing harmony of religious or political states. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
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