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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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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Scheuchzer, 1731-33: memento mori
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A skeleton as memento mori. Etching.
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Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy
Science Museum, London
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Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy
Science Museum, London
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Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy
Science Museum, London