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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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  • North and Central America: map. Coloured engraving, 1862.
  • North and Central America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: map. Engraving, ca. 1777.
  • The Aztec Lilliputians from the great and mysterious city of Iximaya in Central America ...
  • The guinea worm and insects of central America. Pencil drawing by Thomas Malie, c. 1730.
  • [Undated (1876?) illustrated handbill advertising an exhibition of Maximo and Bartola, the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America].
  • [Undated (1876?) illustrated handbill advertising an exhibition of Maximo and Bartola, the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America].
  • A World Fair exhibition site, United States of America: a colonnaded avenue with a central statue. Photograph, ca. 1900?.
  • [Illustrated 'favour ticket' to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855].
  • [Illustrated 'favour ticket' to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855].
  • [Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].
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