Stories
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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Catalogue
- Journals
Report on the British Museum (Natural History).
British Museum (Natural History)Date: 1966-
- Ephemera
- Online
Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum (London, England)Date: Natural History Museum,- Books
List of serial publications in the British Museum (Natural History) Library.
British Museum (Natural History). Library.Date: 1968- Journals
Publication. Botanical series / Field Museum of Natural History.
Date: 1912-1947- Books
Annual report for science / Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum (London, England)Date: 1991-1994