Stories
- Article
The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
- Books
Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self / edited by Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman.
Date: 2013- Books
A dictionary of non-classical mythology / Marian Edwards, Lewis Spence.
Edwardes, Marian.Date: 1988- Books
Sanskrit and Indian studies : essays in honour of Daniel H. H. Ingalls / edited by M. Nagatomi [and others].
Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
Sexual culture in ancient Greece / Daniel H. Garrison.
Garrison, Daniel H.Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s / Jane Davidson Reid ; with the assistance of Chris Rohmann.
Reid, Jane Davidson, 1918-1993.Date: 1993