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  • Book extract

The give and take of caring

Kate Mosse argues that how we define ‘care’ matters, and explores the reciprocity of caring and being cared for.

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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

  • Book extract

Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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A woman in her wilderness of things

Even though her home was overwhelmed with stuff, Georgie Evans’s grandma couldn’t stop buying things. In this series, Georgie delves into hoarding, and attempts to make sense of her grandma’s behaviour.

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  • Clocks: watches and clocks, with details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
  • Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
  • Clocks: a watch mechanism and main spring. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.
  • Clocks: a watch-maker seated at his workbench with a long-case and a bracket clock behind him, diagrams of movements above his head. Engraving, 1748.
  • l'Horloger, the Clock and watch maker with tools costume and apparatus
  • Clocks: a bracket clock formerly in the possession of the East India Company. Process print.
  • Clocks: Richard Greene's museum at Lichfield, showing the "Lichfield" clock, two men discussing it. Engraving, 1748, after H. White.
  • Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.
  • A clock-maker is talking to a man outside his shop as he assembles a clock and an assistant works beyond. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-.
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