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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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  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchn̤ takes cinchona. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting.
  • The genius of painting, preferring sacred to secular history, brings to the public the history of Samson, and writes a dedication to E. Colbert. Etching by J. Gillet and F. Verdier after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 3: Cardinal de Lugo orders the use of cinchona in the hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Oil painting.
  • Historical portraits ... : the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... / the portraits chosen by Emery Walker ... with an introduction on the history of portraiture in England.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
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