Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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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.
Date: 1831-1848- Books
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On memory and the specific energies of the nervous system / by Prof. Ewald Hering.
Hering, Ewald, 1834-1918.Date: 1897- Books
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Handwriting in relation to hygiene : (a paper read at the Congress) / by John Jackson. Vertical writing in relation to health : (a report to the Supreme Council of Hygiene) / by A. Reuss and A. Lorenz.
Jackson, John.Date: [1891]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007141: Manuscript illustration of Scorpio constellation
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/29Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007137: Manuscript illustration of Cancer constellation
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/25Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive