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Wetland

In this episode, JC and her contributors invite you to rethink the idea of of boggy marshlands, and see the ecological health, biodiversity, and carbon capturing benefits of these misunderstood spaces.

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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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  • A man with a spear and a pack of dogs attack a wild boar emerging from the reeds in the swamps. Etching.
  • Use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root : kidney, liver & bladder cure.
  • Use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root : kidney, liver & bladder cure.
  • David Livingstone and his men walking through a swamp in central Africa. Lithograph.
  • A cayman basking on an island surrounded by swamp. Coloured lithograph after C. B. Brown.
  • Open earth draining of a swamp at Mount Hope; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • Birds of the marsh and swamp shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • A sheoak or swamp oak (Casuarina stricta): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving, c. 1804, after H. Andrews.
  • A toad sitting on grass in a swamp with a waterfall in the background. Wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Surinam: white men with rifles are holding them high as they make their way through a swamp after a black man. Engraving after J.G. Stedman.
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