From medieval birth scrolls to online discussion forums, Sally Butcher's artwork explores the the historical and contemporary ...
What does depression feel like – and what helps? Gavin Francis reflects on language, culture and care, and the small steps ...
Dr Kierri Price gives an online tour of a medieval birth girdle - a long roll of parchment covered in texts and images that ...
Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.
For medieval communities, childbirth was rated alongside war and plague as a situation that put body and soul at risk. Dr Róisín Donohoe examines the place of the birth scroll, in protecting women in ...
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Photographs, and how people are presented in them, can impact health and survival. In the 19th century, such photographs and artistic depictions of indigenous people as primitives left behind by ...
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Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the ...
From animal-bladder skin to houndstooth check and sequins, face masks have undergone many revolutions in design over the centuries. Writer Lizzie Enfield traces their history in pictures.
In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...
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