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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo

Darling of 19th-century American freak shows, Evatima Tardo remained serene as she withstood crucifixion and the bites of poisonous snakes. But she took the secret behind her abilities to her grave.

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The Ladies of Llangollen

As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.

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Why pandemic denial is nothing new

Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.

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  • William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Wood engraving, 1844.
  • William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Etching by C. Grey, 1850.
  • William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Photograph by Maull & Co.
  • William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Lithograph by W. Bosley, 1849, after A. Claudet.
  • The back of a man suffering with lesions or sores. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • Diseased tissue on the lower leg of a man. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • Buildings and surgeons and physicians of King's College Hospital, London. Coloured lithograph by Beynon & Company after H. Hale.
  • Sir Robert Peel leads a queue for a coach but is told by the keeper of the coach-office, James Abercromby (Speaker of the House of Commons) that the coach has already gone. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Members of the Society of Artists congregated round a table. Etching by R. Sawyer, 1829.
  • De sermonum proprietate / [Rabanus Maurus].
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