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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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  • The Louvre, Paris: part of the Imperial Library. Photograph by Achille Quinet, ca. 1870.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Saint Agnes. Engraving by J.H. Cook after P. Fendi.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria. Wood engraving by I. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly after T. Hansen.
  • M0007182: Manuscript illustration of the first caesarean section operation
  • M0007190: Manuscript page including three illustrations of a woman
  • Seven named physicians and botanists of the ancient Greek world. Engraving by J.M. Lohié after C. Bourguignon, called Laguiche.
  • Hall of Classics (Guozijian), Peking: a triple archway of sculpted marble leading to the hall. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • M0007116: Page from a 14th century herbal manuscript depicting a mandrake
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