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Join an in-conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient ...
Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...
show credit information for image 'Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked' Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked. © Darren Black for Wellcome Collection. In ...
How did a nut that’s been prized across West Africa for centuries come to be integral in the development of the world’s most ubiquitous soft drink? The story is a surprising mix of colonialism, ...
Myalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...
Building upon her photo story ‘No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a world ...
Living with increased pain and reduced functional abilities because of the advancement of an incurable cancer, and because she lived in Canada, where it is legal, Michelle Elliot’s mum was able to ...
While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...
show credit information for image 'Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. Photo: Benjamin Gilbert' For a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain.
Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...
Just as cultures transform milk, so milk (re)shapes cultures. Dairy consumption in India can be traced as far back as the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE), where it was an essential part of ...
show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...