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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman

How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • The faces of two men behind red roses, advertising the film "Taxi zum Klo". Colour lithograph for [Berliner?] AIDS-Hilfe.
  • A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.
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