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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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Living with less for spiritual gain

Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.

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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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  • Objects, people and activities with their names, as a teaching aid for children. Colour engraving (?).
  • Objects, people and activities with their names, as a teaching aid for children. Colour engraving (?).
  • Purple, orange and grey streaks. Watercolour by Tonka, 2000.
  • Green, red and orange streaks. Watercolour by Ellie, 2000.
  • MS Tibetan 133
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
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