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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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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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  • Publishing ephemera. Box 6.
  • Publishing ephemera. Box 6.
  • Publishing details from Dodoens Stirpivm historiae
  • Vegetarian living : healthy living, the vegetarian way / HHL Publishing.
  • Vegetarian living : healthy living, the vegetarian way / HHL Publishing.
  • Meals without meat : (meatless fare cookery), 1/- net / The Food & Cookery Publishing Co.
  • Meals without meat : (meatless fare cookery), 1/- net / The Food & Cookery Publishing Co.
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
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