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The serious side of historical games
Some games carry a weighty message, from the earliest form of snakes and ladders that led to either heaven or hell, to chess pieces representing the dangerous manoeuvres of unsafe sex in the 80s.
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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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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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Entertainers, one in drag, pose in a line in front of foliage. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2043879iPart of: James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.
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Members of "Harry Gold's Margate Entertainers", one in drag, pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 1937.
Date: 1937Reference: 2045167iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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Members of "Harry Gold's Margate Entertainers", one in drag, pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 1937.
Date: 1937Reference: 2045164iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 728564iPart of: Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 15847i
