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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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Titans in the landscape

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  • Mark Akenside. Line engraving by J. H. Robinson, 1835, after A. Pond.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured lithograph by J. A. Vinter, 1855, after H. Barraud.
  • Gaillard, H. Babinski, J. Babinski, A. Charpentier and four others. Process print, 1921.
  • Salomon Schinz. Reproduction of line engraving by J. H. Lips after A. Speisegger.
  • Johannes à Leuneschloss. Line engraving by J. Schweizer, 1660, after A. H. de Vos.
  • Johannes à Leuneschloss. Line engraving by J. Schweizer, 1660, after A. H. de Vos.
  • A woman confessing to a priest. Engraving by H. Austen after J. Herbert.
  • Johannes Casparus Fausius. Line engraving by J. Schweizer after A. H. de Vos, 1659.
  • Johann Adam Schmidt. Stipple engraving by C. H. Rahl, 1801, after J. A. Kapeller.
  • A hunting dog standing in heathery moorland. Etching by J. H. Engleheart after J. F. Herring.
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