Stories
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Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania
How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
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The dance of death. Oil painting.
Reference: 45066i
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The dance of death: Death as a standard-bearer, flying the standard from his scythe, is seen leading troops against their fatherland. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
Ille, Eduard, 1823-1900.Date: 1849Reference: 32952i
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The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
Ille, Eduard, 1823-1900.Date: 1849Reference: 32919i- Books
The dancing plague / [written and illustrated by] Gareth Brookes ; [foreword by Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London].
Brookes, GarethDate: 2021
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The epidemics of the middle ages / from the German of I.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington.
Date: 1835
