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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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How writing helps me manage schizophrenia

For Erica Crompton, writing is much more than a career. It’s an essential component of her mental health toolkit.

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The Ladies of Llangollen

As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.

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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test

The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.

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  • Portrait of Stephen Paget reading newspaper.
  • A man is sitting on a small sofa reading a newspaper. Lithograph.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A man is sitting in a large chair reading a newspaper. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after T.S. Goode.
  • A group of people are gathered around a couple reading a newspaper. Engraving by W. Taylor after Sir David Wilkie.
  • A barber shaving a man while another man distracts him by reading from a newspaper entitled "The true sun". Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).
  • A seated man reading a newspaper in a kitchen (?), a basket by his feet. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after T.S. Goode.
  • A man reading a newspaper supplied in a coffee house and reading room turns to ask a seated man if he has read the leader article, to whch he receives the reply that he has not, owing to the failings of newspapers. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
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