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Why we no longer keep our dead at home

Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.

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The enigma of the medieval folding almanac

With its combination of rich, portable data and high-end style, this folding almanac could have been the medieval equivalent of the latest iPhone.

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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions

Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.

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Thousands of years of women’s pain

Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.

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  • Hogarth's The Company of Undertakers.
  • A man with closed eyes walking into a skeletal death figure, a group of anxious undertakers run after them. Coloured etching by R. Newton, 1794, after himself.
  • An undertaker's visit. Etching by Richard Newton, 17--.
  • The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • An undertaker drops in to give Christmas and New Year wishes to a sick man. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • Astrology chart: table to indicate lucky and unlucky periods, as well as the chances of undertakings. Chromolithograph.
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