Stories
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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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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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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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A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 16882iPart of: Le mariage à la ville- Books
Along a river : the first French-Canadian women / Jan Noel.
Noel, JanetDate: [2013]- Pictures
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A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
Villiers, Frederick, 1852-1922.Reference: 24463i- Books
Heilen an Leib und Seele : Medizin und Hygiene im 18. Jahrhundert / herausgegeben im Auftrag der Franckeschen Stiftungen von Holger Zaunstöck und Thomas Grunewald.
Date: [2021]- Books
House of psychotic women : an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films / Kier-La Janisse.
Janisse, Kier-LaDate: 2022