Stories
- Article
The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
The Pain killer polka / composed by F. Archer.
Archer, Frederic, 1838-1901.Date: [1890?]
- Books
- Online
Song of songs; or, sacred idyls / translated from the original Hebrew, with notes critical and explanatory by John Mason Good.
Old Testament [Bible].Date: 1803
- Books
- Online
How birds learn to make nests and songs.
Miller, W. J. C. (William John Clarke), 1832-1903.Date: [1897]
- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 1.