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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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  • National School AIDS Prevention day on 23rd May
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : May 1912.
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : May 1913.
  • Geranium Day Tuesday May 11th, 1926 / Greater London Fund for the Blind conducted by the National Institute for the Blind.
  • Nurses caring for patients in Morocco: celebrating International Nursing Day on 12 May 2002 . Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • The appellants case : to be heard at the bar of the House of Lords, on Tuesday the first day of May 1733 / C. Talbot, Tho. Lutwyche.
  • The appellants case : to be heard at the bar of the House of Lords, on Tuesday the first day of May 1733 / C. Talbot, Tho. Lutwyche.
  • Children tending a garden and illustrating a wall with the words 'un compromiso con la vida' within a school in Venezuela to promote AIDS prevention day on 23rd May (1995). Colour lithograph by Angeles, 1995.
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