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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’

I’m a painter, but I make worlds.

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What our facial hair says about us

Five bearded and moustachioed men choose five hirsute archive images to help them reflect on the way facial hair is linked with personality and identity.

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The girl with no name

When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

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’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

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  • Meat kills : just say no! : 850 million animals slaughtered in the UK every year / Animal Aid.
  • Meat kills : just say no! : 850 million animals slaughtered in the UK every year / Animal Aid.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A man is wearing fashionable dress (a pair of checked trousers, a jacket, cravat and gloves), carries a cane and wears a top hat. Coloured lithograph.
  • A businessman sitting in dispair in a chair leaning over with his hands in his hair; a warning in English and Malay about the dangers of casual sex and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A businessman sitting in dispair in a chair leaning over with his hands in his hair; a warning in English and Chinese about the dangers of casual sex and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Dr. Flannel suggests to a fashionable lady that she wear a flannel petticoat to keep her legs warm. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
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