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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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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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How Californian dairy farmers stole a way of life

When European settlers drained a beautiful Californian lake to provide dairy grazing, the lives of nearby Native American peoples changed out of all recognition. But recent rainfall is strengthening hopes of a return to the old ways.

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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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  • Ming herbal (painting): Paradise flycatcher
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • The Modern Paradise, obscure allegorical cartoon, 1780
  • Plate: Natives of Aru Shooting the Great Bird of Paradise.
  • Bird of paradise seed
  • A Chalybean Paradise-Bird sitting on a brabnch of a tree. Etching by M. Griffith.
  • Wynberg, South Africa: an avenue, Little Paradise. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
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