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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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The hidden history of homesickness

Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs

The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.

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  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Plan of Wellcome museum galleries: 1st floor showing new arrangement, 1942, Dr Daukes scheme: Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, 19th & 20th centuries, history of disease, research.
  • An old woman reading with a fur-trimmed hat and coat. Etching by A.H. Reidel, 1781, after G. Douw.
  • Conspectus historiae medicorum chronologicus. In usum praelectionum academicarum / confectus a Georgio Matthiæ.
  • Conspectus historiae medicorum chronologicus. In usum praelectionum academicarum / confectus a Georgio Matthiæ.
  • Conspectus historiae medicorum chronologicus. In usum praelectionum academicarum / confectus a Georgio Matthiæ.
  • Conspectus historiae medicorum chronologicus. In usum praelectionum academicarum / confectus a Georgio Matthiæ.
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