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The meaning of trauma is wound

Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.

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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

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Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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  • Dr Mackellar and Red Cross staff crossing the Morava river after the Battle before Alexinatz, Serbia. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
  • Red River Settlement, Canada: a Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats, one flying the Red Ensign, on the river. Coloured engraving by T. Tagg, 1797, after E. Dayes.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Above, two deities (?), one of whom is holding a red ball which has rays and the image of a fox emanating from it; below, two women lying on the grass with a cat, with the Hashiba ferry seen crossing the Sumida river between Asakusa and Mukōjima, in the background. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, botom image by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.
  • Boer War: volunteer ambulance at work. Process print after A. Kemp Tebby after a photograph.
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