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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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A history of gestation outside the body

It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: his arrest by the revolutionaries while performing a chemical experiment. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux after himself, 1798.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, the revolutionary women's army attacks Nanking. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the revolutionary army entering Nanking. Colour lithograph by T. Miyano.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the march of the revolutionary army on Wuhan. Colour lithograph by T. Miyano.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: a pitched battle between the imperial army (left) and the revolutionary army (right). Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • Eschmann Stomacare Products. Nothing short of revolutionary. Literally sensational in demand.
  • Eschmann Stomacare Products. Nothing short of revolutionary. Literally sensational in demand.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the revolutionary army attacking Nanking (?) crosses a stream by night and is picked out by enemy arc lights. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • The ghost of the revolutionary politician Mirabeau giving an address. Coloured etching, 1791.
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