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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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The meanings of hurt

In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.

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Witches

Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and the burning of Protestant books in Cambridge marketplace. Etching by G. Terry.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • The face of a woman against a black background bearing the red lettering: "Dass das Leben zu ende Sein kann, noch ehe es begonnen hat, mag für dich unvorstellebar Sein; für mich aber wird es ... zur realitä'; an advertisement for an Ecumenical service at the Protestant Episocopal Church in Bischofszell on Sunday, 29 August on the theme of: 'AIDS - a punishment from God? by Pastors H. Miller and M. Keller with representatives of AIDS-Hilfe Thurgau. Colour lithograph.
  • A Protestant marriage ceremony is performed in Alsace by a priest in the company of the couple's relatives. Etching by P.A. Rajon, ca. 1878, after G. Brion.
  • The death of Thomas Cranmer at the stake, burned for heresy in 1556. Woodcut.
  • The death of Thomas Cranmer at the stake, burnt for heresy in 1556, with Queen Mary looking on. Etching.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • Martin Luther as a monk by Lukas Cranach from a postcard
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