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A brief history of tattoos

The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.

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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages

The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.

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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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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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  • Anubis tending mummy. Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
  • Tombs of Benjamin Jesty and Elizabeth Jesty. Photograph, 19--.
  • Lithograph: tombs at Pamphylia
  • The Tombs prison, Centre Street, New York City. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • The Tombs prison, Centre Street, New York City. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Tombs of the Mamelukes, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Two drawings of tombs at Alinda.
  • Tombs of the caliphs, with minaret, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • Kerameikos cemetery, Athens: ancient tombs. Photograph, 18--.
  • Tombs in the garden of Faiz Ali Khan at Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.
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