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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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Dogs to the rescue

Explore artworks and archive photographs showing how our four-legged friends have been helping humans for hundreds of years.

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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations

Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.

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How trauma affects the body and mind

The long and devastating aftermath of an attack have given writer and broadcaster Bidisha unique insight into the suffering of other victims. Here she explores survival and healing in those who have experienced trauma.

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  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • A Yorkshire terror, 1621.
  • Lightning striking a rural building during a storm: onlookers react in terror. Engraving, 16--.
  • A man with his mouth open in terror. Lithograph by P. Simonau, 1822, after C. Le Brun.
  • King's Cross disease centre 'terror target' : follow the story every day : Evening Standard : know what London's thinking.
  • A weak woman in a state of exertion (left) and terror on the face of a boy (right). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
  • An écorché face showing the muscles involved in the expression of terror. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
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