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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Inside the minds of A R Hopwood and Honor Beddard
The curators of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ reveal the stories behind the exhibits, and the intriguing truths the show confronts us with.
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Surviving as a working-class woman without work
An enforced period of unemployment was extremely tough for Claire Hart, a working-class woman with a strong work ethic. Here she describes her feelings during this difficult time.
Catalogue
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The spirit of diseases, or, Diseases from the spirit : laid open in some observations concerning man and his diseases : wherein is shewed how much the mind influenceth the body in causing and curing of diseases : the whole deduced from certain and infallible principles of natural reason and experience / by Franciscus Mercurius, Baron of Helmont.
Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699Date: 1694- Books
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A philosophical essay on man. Being an attempt to investigate the principles and laws of the reciprocal influence of the soul and body. ...
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A philosophical essay on man. Being an attempt to investigate the principles and laws of the reciprocal influence of the soul on the body. ...
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An essay on the changes produced in the body by operations of the mind. By the late Doctor Corp, M.D. of Bath.
Corp, William, -1790.Date: M.D.CC.PCI [1791]- Books
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The vision : or a dialog between the soul and the bodie, fancied in a morning-dream.
Howell, James, 1594?-1666Date: Anno. Dom. 1651