Stories
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
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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.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
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Marble bust of Thomas Addison.
- Digital Images
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Marble votive of memorial relief
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Marble Figure "Chao-Li-Kwan"
- Archives and manuscripts
Marble bones (Albers-Schonberg)
Date: c.1926-c.1952Reference: PP/HUN/C/2/119Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)- Digital Images
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Marble statue of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
A. Strobl.