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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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A virtual view of history
Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Engravings by and after Annibale Carracci, Agostino Carracci and Lodovico Carracci. Album compiled by Pietro Fancelli.
Fancelli, Pietro, 1764-1850.Date: [between 1600 and 1699 - 1850]Reference: 29876i- Pictures
Episodes in the "Arabian nights". Colour heliogravures after oil paintings by A. Letchford, 1897.
Letchford, Albert, 1866-1905.Date: [1897?]Reference: 35096i- Books
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Visual griot : bringing history of SCD to the present.
Sara, AlintaDate: 2023- Pictures
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Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
Date: 1890Reference: 45036i- Pictures
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Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood from a man's arm, the other giving treatment to a man's back. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 44866i