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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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Navigating in a connected world

Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.

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The 200-year search for normal people

Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.

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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.

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  • Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.
  • 8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • Archbishop Affre, wounded in the June 1848 insurrection, is carried back to his residence to die. Lithograph by V. Adam and A. Maurin, 1848.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • World War I: transport of the wounded by sledge in Russia, 1918. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: transport of the wounded by sledge in Russia, 1918. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
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