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Drugs in Victorian Britain

Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?

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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.

  • Book extract

What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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  • Eleazer Birch Roche
  • Birch bark MS from Kashmir of the Rupavatra
  • T. Birch, The History of the Royal Society
  • The life of the Honourable Robert Boyle / By Thomas Birch.
  • Birch (Betula species): twigs and catkins. Pen and pencil drawings.
  • John Birch. Line engraving by C. Lewis after T. Phillips.
  • Betula pendula (Silver birch)
  • Birch's machine for cutting sash-bars etc. / J. Johnson del. ; G.D. Dempsey direx.
  • Leaves of birch (Betula species). Pen drawing with pencil.
  • A tree, possibly siver birch (Betula pendula). Pencil drawing.
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