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Why “crazy cat ladies” are healthier than you may think
Writer Erica Crompton ponders the reasons behind the misogynist “crazy cat lady” trope, and reclaims cat ownership as a positive way to help restore mental equilibrium.
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Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Laughing gas and the scientific pursuit of the sublime
Part science lecture. part public spectacle, thanks to chemist Humphry Davy the 19th-century craze for inhaling nitrous oxide rapidly spread from the science laboratory to fashionable salons and homes of the day, and onto the popular stage.
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May Day; or, anecdotes of Miss Lydia Lively. Intended to improve and amuse the rising generation.
Date: 1787- Archives and manuscripts
Day Book
Date: 17 Oct 1944-29 May 1946Reference: GP/34/1/15Part of: Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune- Archives and manuscripts
Day Book
Date: 29 Jan 1941-15 May 1942Reference: GP/34/1/12Part of: Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune- Archives and manuscripts
Day Book
Date: 14 Jun 1946-8 May 1948Reference: GP/34/1/16Part of: Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune- Archives and manuscripts
Day Book
Date: 16 May 1942-6 Feb 1943Reference: GP/34/1/13Part of: Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune