Stories
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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Migraine, creativity and me
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
Catalogue
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Saint Paul the Hermit being fed by a raven. Oil painting by a Spanish painter.
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An apothecary (a man using pestle and mortar). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th century.
Reference: 44594i- Books
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Further obseruations of the English Spanish pilgrime, concerning Spaine : being a second part of his former booke, and containing these particulars: the description of a famous monastery, or house of the King of Spaines, called the Escuriall, not the like in the Christian world: a briefe relation of certaine dæmonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times, and now liuing in England. A relation of the founding of a military order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, and heretofore pentioner to the King of Spaine.
Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?Date: 1630- Books
The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology / Ignacio Bernal, Román Piña-Chán, Fernando Cámara-Barbachano; photographed by Irmgard Groth, translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom.
Bernal, Ignacio, 1910-1992.Date: 1968- Books
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Sin and confession in colonial Peru : Spanish-Quechua penitential texts, 1560-1650 / Regina Harrison.
Harrison, ReginaDate: 2014