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When civilisation made people sick

Sickness from nervous exhaustion is not a new thing. Over a hundred years ago, neurasthenia afflicted society’s ‘brain-workers’.

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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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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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  • A man is selling newspapers on the pier. Coloured lithograph.
  • Boys hand out newspapers to the waiting crowds. Wood engraving.
  • Men and woman are sitting at tables in the open air reading newspapers. Aquatint.
  • Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone in central Africa, reading British newspapers. Process print after Pearson after J.B. Zwecker.
  • Baden-Baden, Germany: Gustav Stresemann sitting on the terrace of a grape-cure establishment, reading the newspapers. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
  • Groups of people are gathered outside a building reading newspapers and letters. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after Frederick Goodall.
  • Three men are sitting at a table with newspapers spread out before them, another man is consulting a map on the wall. Etching.
  • The fourth estate : contributions towards a history of newspapers, and of the liberty of the press / by F. Knight Hunt. In two vols.
  • Charles James Fox as a newsboy delivering newspapers to the Treasury, spreading panic and advertising his suitability for a government post. Etching by James Gillray.
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