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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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Notes on need

Writing about bodies, and hearing the stories of others’ bodies, Johanna Hedva also heard, over and over, how people blame themselves – and are encouraged to do this – for illness and disability.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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The bishop’s profitable sex workers

How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.

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  • Economics: a graph comparing armed forces and gross national product and debt for various European countries. Coloured engraving, [c.1840].
  • A debt collector (?) thumbing through his papers outside a front door. Mezzotint by W. Bonnar after T. Bonnar the elder.
  • Arthur Pendennis ("Pen"), as a student at Boniface College, Oxbridge, is confronted by debt collectors at the door of his rooms. Process print after W.M. Thackeray.
  • A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A large balloon representing the British national debt placed on top of the Stock Exchange in London. Aquatint by F. Jukes after Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps after William Phelps.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
  • Tom Rakewell is arrested for debt on his way to the Royal Court to seek preferment when he is saved by Sarah Young. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • George Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, holding a pair of unbalanced scales representing his budget, while William Pitt the elder and others mock him and make suggestions for reducing the British government's debt. Etching, 1765.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 12, Debts / Immunity.
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