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Fighting shame by speaking out

Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s first instinct after being raped was to cover it up. Shame silenced her for ten years, but #MeToo gave her the courage to speak out.

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A graveyard of plants for the people I love

Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.

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Good animals, bad humans?

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

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An insider’s view of Play Well

Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.

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  • Mental evolution in animals : With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin / [George John Romanes].
  • Mental evolution in animals : With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin / [George John Romanes].
  • Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forensic study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ... The only authorised English translation of the tenth German edition.
  • Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forencis study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ; only authorized English adaptation of the twelfth German edition by F. J. Rebman.
  • Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forencis study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ; only authorized English adaptation of the twelfth German edition by F. J. Rebman.
  • Zoology: a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts, and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom / [William Benjamin Carpenter].
  • Zoology: a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts, and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom / [William Benjamin Carpenter].
  • Zoology: a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts, and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom / [William Benjamin Carpenter].
  • A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.
  • The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.
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