Stories
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
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Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
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The desire for lighter skin
Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Holly (Ilex aquifolium): leaves and berries. Watercolour drawings.
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Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot.
Mailhot, Terese MarieDate: 2019- Books
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Flora diætetica: or, History of esculent plants, both domestic and foreign. In which they are accurately described, and reduced to their linnăn generic and specific names. With their English names annexed, and ranged under eleven general heads, viz. Esculent 1 Roots, 2 Shoots, stalks, &c. 3 Leaves, 4 Flowers, 5 Berries, 6 Stone-fruit, 7 Apples, 8 Legumens, 9 Grain, 10 Nuts, 11 Funguses. And a particular account of the manner of using them; their native places of growth; their several varieties, and physical properties: together with whatever is otherwise curious, or very remarkable in each species. The whole so methodized, as to form a short introduction to the science of botany. By Charles Bryant, of Norwich.
Bryant, Charles, -approximately 1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Pictures
Laurel leaves and berries: a moulding. Pencil drawing, 1899.
Date: 1899Reference: 2897607i- Pictures
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A thrush eating berries. Etching by W. Hayes, ca. 1775.
Hayes, W. (William), 1729-1799.Date: 1775Reference: 42968i