Stories
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive
Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.
Catalogue
- Videos
Radcliffe ructions : a drama of (un)real life.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959]- Film
Radcliffe ructions : a drama of (un)real life.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959]- E-journals
- Online
Comparative drama
Date: 1967-- Books
- Online
Critical remarks on the tragedy of Athelstan. With rules necessary to be observed by all dramatic poets. By the author of The state-farce.
Author of The state farce.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
- Online
The dramatic history of Master Edward, Miss Ann, and others, the extraordinaries of these times. Collected from Zaphaniel's original papers. By George Alexander Stevens, Author of the celebrated Lecture upon Heads. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]