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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

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Queer cafés and gay mylk

Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.

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My rainforest upbringing

In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.

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  • A printing press, rolling press, cider press and potash kiln with constituent parts. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Medical press and circular.
  • Herb and plant press.
  • Cider press, 17th century
  • Flail press for cidermaking; woodcut.
  • Coinage: interior view (a) coin press (b) various components of the coin press. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Clymer and Dixon's patent Columbian printing press.
  • 'Indian Rising 1862': Press cuttings, articles etc.
  • 'Indian Rising 1862': Press cuttings, articles etc.
  • Press cutting: cornerstone of Wellcome Building, 1931
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