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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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Born different

For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

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  • Christian and Muslim chapels on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Architecture: the roof trusses of three chapels compared. Engraving by A. Dick, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
  • Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].
  • Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].
  • Gray's Inn Chapel.
  • New College, Oxford: chapel. Aquatint.
  • King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Line engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, Cambridge: interior. Lithograph.
  • Chapel for the Consumption Hospital, Brompton.
  • Chapel Great Ilford, Leper Hospital, Essex: interior of chapel. Line engraving by W. Wise, 1816, after R.B. Schnebbelie.
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