Stories
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Solving the mystery of how to be happy
Crime writer Sophie Hannah thinks she might be too happy. Worried she’s using her happiness as an excuse to avoid a big work problem, she turns to a life coach for help.
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How to play with drunk people
Lower your inhibitions and join Holly Gramazio for fast-paced games made even more fun by alcohol.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
Catalogue
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World War I: two men carrying a stretcher among the trenches in France. Wash drawing by D. Lindsay, ca. 191-.
Lindsay, Daryl (Ernest Daryl), Sir, 1889-1976.Date: 1910-1919Reference: 572690i- Pictures
Allegorical and sacred subjects, and hermits. Drawings attributed to Aspruck, ca. 1740.
Date: 1740Reference: 579368i- Pictures
Herpes zoster in a female patient: two views showing site of blister rash in relation to area affected. Pen and ink drawing with watercolour wash by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1953.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1953Reference: 34745iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Pictures
Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 25405i
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Saint Matthew. Wash drawing.
Reference: 6577i