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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.

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  • A young woman sits and listens with scorn to a man's declarations of love. Mezzotint by James Wilson after C. Troost.
  • A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
  • A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
  • A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
  • The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • A nurse gives a man an enema. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
  • A peripatetic medicine vendor entering a house in the Netherlands. Watercolour by R. Craeyvanger, 1866.
  • A peripatetic medicine vendor entering a house in the Netherlands. Watercolour by R. Craeyvanger, 1866.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
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