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Between two summers

As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.

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Mixed heritage lesbian couples and fertility treatment

For a lesbian couple who want to share their different cultural heritages with their child, fertility treatment can get very complicated.

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Fashion for an unruly body

One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.

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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens

In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.

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  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • Findus lean cuisine / Findus.
  • Findus lean cuisine / Findus.
  • Marguerite Agniel posing leaning back, circa 1929
  • Marguerite Agniel leaning on her shoulders, circa 1929
  • Ahalya leaning on tree. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Hello, 'Oh no, not another one!' / Sharley McLean, The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Informal snapshot of Sir George Porter leaning over a fence
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