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Advice for (medieval) old age

Whether it was an abstemious, pious preparation for death or drinking gold in the quest for eternal life, those seeking advice on what best to do in their later years were never short of inspiration.

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Finding solidarity in arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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  • The popular diet for all young and immature stock : unequalled for quality and reasonable in price : as good for cattle as for sheep : Holland's Britannia lamb and calf food / F.E. Holland.
  • The popular diet for all young and immature stock : unequalled for quality and reasonable in price : as good for cattle as for sheep : Holland's Britannia lamb and calf food / F.E. Holland.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
  • John Boby, a black man with white markings. Reproduction of an etching, 1803.
  • George Alexander (Gratton), a black boy with white markings. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • George Alexander (Gratton), a black boy with white markings. Engraving by P.R. Cooper, 1809, after D. Orme.
  • A relief of an athlete holding a giant clock above his head. Colour process print, 1908.
  • A relief of an athlete holding a giant clock above his head. Colour process print, 1908.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
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Self-Help and Health Food in Edwardian London

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