Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
- Article
My mother, and metaphors of a pandemic
A pandemic. Two members of one family, living thousands of miles apart. And months of calls and messages that helped them grow closer.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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An essay on the usefulness of Oriental learning.
Parker, Richard, approximately 1712-1742.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
Centres of learning : learning and location in pre-modern Europe and the Near East / edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald.
Date: 1995- Books
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Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean / E. J. W. Barber.
Barber, E. J. W., 1940-Date: 1991- Books
Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, 16th-17th centuries : seeking, transforming, discarding knowledge / Sonja Brentjes.
Brentjes, Sonja.Date: [2010], ©2010- Mixed materials
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
Sayre, Lewis A. (Lewis Albert), 1820-1900.Date: 1877