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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test

The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.

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A flat-packed forest

The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.

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  • Abbe Breuil in Lascaux caves at La Mouthe
  • Bones (or early tools, made of bone?) found in the caves of Ojcow, Poland. Lithograph, 1870/1890?.
  • Beni Hassan, Egypt: entrance to the caves; men grouped to one side. Photograph by Pascal Sébah, ca. 1875.
  • The Kanheri caves on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
  • A map showing the caves and valleys of denudation in the district of Muggendorf in Bavaria, Germany. Lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929: Cristo de Medinaceli, Altamira ox-drawing from caves, view of Toledo (?). Colour lithograph by F. Galí Fabra, 1929.
  • Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge / By the Rev. William Buckland.
  • The Greenland Dwarfs : in Mr. Fillinham's collection there is a very curious and rare print, engraved by J.O. Berndt, minor Nurnberg, representing two dwarfs seated near the entrance of some caves on the Greenland coast ...
  • Magdalenian cave drawing.
  • Cave art (?)
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