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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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Migraine, creativity and me

Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.

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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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  • Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.
  • A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.
  • Two monks guarding a coffin inside an old building. Etching by W. Greatbach after J. Taylor.
  • The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
  • Jacob Wainwright sitting next to the coffin of David Livingstone on board ship. Wood engraving by J. Nash, after a photograph.
  • The lid of a coffin at Castle Dermot, decorated with two skeletons. Etching by Mrs. D.T. after Mrs. W.J. Hooker.
  • Two priests and their server follow a funeral procession carrying an open coffin into a church. Etching by J. Pesne after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Nuns and mourning women lamenting the death of a man laid out in an open coffin. Coloured stipple engraving by A.J. Lallemand after F. Gonin after Cominotti.
  • An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
  • A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789.
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