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Walk, interrupted

By listing all the things that get in her way, Caroline Butterwick wants to create an embodied experience of disability and convince you that inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

  • Article

The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

  • Article

Why zombies can’t help coming back

Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.

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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

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  • Canine sanitation, dog litter bin
  • A litter of puppies reared on concrete.
  • A litter of puppies reared on grass.
  • Neudorfer's two-wheeled litter with two wounded soldiers.
  • Crimean War: Dr. Bretts' ambulance litter. Wood engraving.
  • Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.
  • A man lying in a litter, being carried by four men. Coloured etching.
  • A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by W. Ottley.
  • A man is being carried in a litter on the shoulders of four men. Watercolour drawing.
  • A woman in Japan being carried in a litter through the mountains by two men. Wood engraving, 1865.
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