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From medieval birth scrolls to online discussion forums, Sally Butcher's artwork explores the the historical and contemporary ...

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.

Explore the historical depiction of witchcraft through a 1720 woodcut showing witches giving babies to the devil.

The life and miracles of St. Wenefrede , together with her Litanies; with some historical observations made thereon.

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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We think of assistive technology as something modern, and that people with mobility issues in the past were limited to their locality or confined within their homes. But there are clues in the ...

Approximately halfway through my master’s I stopped being able to cope. It might have been because I was being kept awake by second-year student parties until five in the morning, or because I ...

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...