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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.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

  • Article

How can I stop fainting?

Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.

  • Article

Lying low for lockdown and beyond

For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.

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  • The letters 'EZ' next to a man's foot standing on a Universal declaration about the rights of those with HIV or AIDS issued by the Asociacion Ciudadana de Lucha Contra el Sida de Autoapoyo Entre los Affectados T-4. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • The discoverie of the large rich, and bewtifvl empire of Gviana. With / a relation of the great and Golden Citie / of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El / Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, / Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Cou- / tries, with their riuers, ad- / ioyning. / Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh. Knight, Captaine of her / Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden / of the Stanneries, and her High- / nesse Lieutenant generall / of the Countie of / Cornewall / [Sir Walter Raleigh].
  • The discoverie of the large rich, and bewtifvl empire of Gviana. With / a relation of the great and Golden Citie / of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El / Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, / Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Cou- / tries, with their riuers, ad- / ioyning. / Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh. Knight, Captaine of her / Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden / of the Stanneries, and her High- / nesse Lieutenant generall / of the Countie of / Cornewall / [Sir Walter Raleigh].
  • The discoverie of the large rich, and bewtifvl empire of Gviana. With / a relation of the great and Golden Citie / of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El / Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, / Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Cou- / tries, with their riuers, ad- / ioyning. / Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh. Knight, Captaine of her / Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden / of the Stanneries, and her High- / nesse Lieutenant generall / of the Countie of / Cornewall / [Sir Walter Raleigh].
  • A drinking song set to music with an illustration of a drunken party. Engraving and etching by G. Bickham junior, 17--, after G. Monro and W. Hogarth.
  • A drinking song set to music with an illustration of a drunken party. Engraving and etching by G. Bickham junior, 17--, after G. Monro and W. Hogarth.
  • A drinking song set to music with an illustration of a drunken party. Engraving and etching by G. Bickham junior, 17--, after G. Monro and W. Hogarth.
  • The animals look on as the angel expels Adam and Eve from paradise. Engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • Wax models of the head and neck (figs 1-3), and of the right hemisphere of the brain (figs 4-5), made by G. G. Zumbo. Engraving by J. Robert after M. Basseporte, 1749.
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