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Dial ‘S’ for sex

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.

  • Article

Crime drama and the realistic cadaver

Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.

  • Photo story

The man who remembers everything

Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.

  • Article

A medieval guide to practical magic

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

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  • Penazol P.A.S. / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Penazol P.A.S. / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Penazol P.A.S. / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Penazol P.A.S. / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Sailors in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • Sailors in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • Saint Philip Neri. Engraving by S. Castellari after S. Tofanelli.
  • Trimicina / Farmaceutici Italia S.A., representantes exclusivos Comindustria S.A.
  • A sailor in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • A sailor in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
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  • Seminar

The Queer World of Margaret Lowenfeld

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Part of Exploring Research

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The Anatomy of Loneliness

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