Stories
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von H. Ploss.
Ploss Hermann Heinrich, 1819-1885.Date: 1887- Books
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Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von H. Ploss.
Ploss Hermann Heinrich, 1819-1885.Date: 1885- Pictures
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A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17852i