Stories
- Article
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.
- Book extract
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.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
Catalogue
- Books
The ghost : a cultural history / Susan Owens.
Owens, SusanDate: 2017- Books
A queer little history of art / Alex Pilcher.
Pilcher, AlexDate: 2017- Books
Ideas and practices in the history of medicine. 1650-1850 / Adrian Wilson.
Wilson, Adrian, 1947-Date: [2014]- Books
Sense of humors : the human factor in the history of medicine / Luca Borghi.
Borghi, Luca, 1962-Date: [2022]- Books
Life between islands : Caribbean-British art 1950s - now / edited by Alex Farquharson and David A. Bailey.
Date: 2021