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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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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?

In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.

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Eels and feels

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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  • An unmarried woman approaching middle age smiles seductively at the viewer as inwardly she considers her future with foreboding. Engraving by G. Kellaway, 1828, after T. Stewardson.
  • A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting, ca. 1680.
  • A shepherdess receiving amorous approaches from a man under a tree as they are watched by a man from behind. Etching.
  • A Persian prince with his attendants
  • A boy flying in the arms of a siren. Photographic postcard after D. Puech, 191-.
  • A woman consulting an official weeps and then faints, prompting the official to take her privately into his back office. Line process print by SGAP after Albert Guillaume, 1893.
  • A boy flying in the arms of a siren. Photographic postcard after D. Puech, 191-.
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
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