Stories
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Article
The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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Sailing ships at sea; a man dreaming; other subjects. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 748222i- Pictures
Sailing ships and a steamship at sea; Dunloe Castle, Killarney. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 748274i
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Sailing ships and rowing boats at Alexandria, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: [1849]Reference: 33609iPart of: Egypt and Nubia
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Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20216i- Pictures
A magician's cave; sailing ships at sea; kaleidoscopes. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 748272i