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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.

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  • A public bath-house at Dulcigno. Wood engraving by E. Froment after R.C. Woodville.
  • Men and women standing outside a public bath-house above; men and women inside a public bath being washed by attendants, below. Engraving after Boissard.
  • Lawyers drinking or already drunk in a public house. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne), 1845.
  • Two men performing a show to an audience at a public house, using sign language. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • Floating public bath-house: cross-section above and plan below. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1761.
  • Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.
  • Floating public bath-house: exterior elevations above and interior plans below. Engraving by R. Bénard after J.R. Lucotte, 1762.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, with a public house shown on the corner. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Boer War: men lying in a military hospital housed in a public school at Mafeteng, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after M. Maseru.
  • Interior of the House of Lords during a public inquiry into Queen Caroline in 1820. Stipple engraving by J. G. Murray after J. Stephanoff.
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