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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

  • Article

How the mental health system fails Black people

Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.

  • Podcast

Joy

Bidisha explores joy, from the psychology of our earliest laughs to collective and solitary pleasures like comedy, food and performance.

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The Key to Memory: Mark it out

Sarah Bentley explores what a papier-mâché figure from Japan can tell us about how and why we remember.

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  • German Hospital, New York City. Coloured wood engraving by Sheer.
  • A woman walking, wearing a sheer dress. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman walking, wearing a sheer dress. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman running, wearing a sheer dress. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by C. Sheeres, 1857, after B. Sly.
  • Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • Hydraulics: a fountain at Grenelle, Paris, with spectators. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres, 1857.
  • Houses and schools, Fulham, London. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres after B. Sly, 1854.
  • Middlesex Industrial Schools, Feltham, Middlesex: aerial scene. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres, 1857, after Banks and Barry.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
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