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A little wildness

To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.

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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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How wigs help children handle hair loss

For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.

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  • McMahon and King performing as blackface ministrels.
  • McMahon and King performing as blackface ministrels.
  • Two nurses whispering and causing a nuisance to patients. Colour lithograph after Fougasse, 1958.
  • Sir Robert Walpole as Jack in 'Jack and the beanstalk'; representing his domination by the giants Spain and potentially France in the 'War of Jenkin's Ear'. Engraving by C Mosley, 1739.
  • By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • A committee of English Nonconformists of the Commonwealth era receiving petitions from people accused of bestiality (a woman with a dog and a man with a horse); representing the danger that Puritanism might be revived in 1680 and seize power in Great Britain. Engraving after Sir R. Lestrange, 1680.
  • St. Gothard Hospital, St. Gothard, Switzerland: Louis-Philippe, Duke of Chartres, travelling incognito, is turned away when seeking help from the hospital. Mezzotint by J. Franklin after H. Vernet.
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