Stories
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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Nun who accompanied F. Nightingale to the Crimea, 1854
Elliott & Fry- Pictures
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A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
Reference: 17732i- Pictures
Nuns kneeling in prayer; in the foreground, a man kneeling on the ground. Etching by A. Pond, ca. 1736, after Agostino Carracci.
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.Date: 1736Reference: 3015537i- Books
Nuns of the battlefield / by Ellen Ryan Jolly, LL. D.
Jolly, Ellen Ryan.Date: ©1930, ©1927- Pictures
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Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
Reference: 1968i