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The intermediate life of spirits

Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.

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‘My Hair Is Not…’

Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.

  • Article

The Ladies of Llangollen

As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.

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Being trans in the world of sex work

Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.

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  • Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
  • Sir William MacCormac about to perform a surgical operation at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. Albumen print, 1891.
  • Arthur Schuster, standing, facing forwards. Photograph, c. 1920.
  • Arthur Schuster, with 1st. Baron Blythswood, on the steps of Blythswood House in Renfrewshire. Photograph, c. 1901.
  • Arthur Schuster, standing, facing forwards. Photograph, c. 1920.
  • Arthur Schuster, lying on an armchair by a fireplace, with a photograph of Lord Kelvin behind him. Photograph, c. 1901.
  • Leonard Schuster standing on a rock, facing left. Photograph by Frank M. Sutcliffe, c. 1893.
  • Nora Schuster aged 3, seated, facing forwards. Photograph by Mrs Fred Wilkinson, c. 1895.
  • Arthur Schuster, seated, facing left, aged about 50. Photograph, c. 1901.
  • Leonard Schuster standing on a rock, facing left. Photograph by Frank M. Sutcliffe, c. 1893.
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