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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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Tripping for spiritualism and science

Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.

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Writing back to authority

As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.

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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
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