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Death and our digital ghosts

When we die, our data lives on. And as companies are increasingly spotting money-making opportunities from digital legacies, now could be the time to think about – and control – yours.

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Our Covid complicity

Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.

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‘My Hair Is Not…’

Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.

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  • The grave of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Franklin in Philadelphia. Wood engraving.
  • A man reading a newspaper supplied in a coffee house and reading room turns to ask a seated man if he has read the leader article, to whch he receives the reply that he has not, owing to the failings of newspapers. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • An old vagrant's corpse is stuffed with newspaper after being raided for useful organs by two pipe-smoking, wisecracking surgeons. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: McClellan Hospital, Philadelphia: a model. Photograph, 1876.
  • In the first picture, a doctor promises a patient a drive out in a car in a few days; the second picture shows a hearse solemnly departing. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An eye at the centre of a poster entitled "Lutter" [The fight] littered with strips of white text on black about attitudes to AIDS; one of a series of posters representing an advertisement for a competition for posters of images against AIDS organised by CRIPS. Colour lithograph by students from the Lycée Polyvalant Tertiaire Paul Doumer.
  • An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.
  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
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