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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.

Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe and reveals a long history of communicating with hand signs among both deaf and hearing communities. In some senses, deaf ...

<p>Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...

Copy 1, Volume 1 Beretning om corvetten Galatheás reise omkring Jorden, 1845, 46 og 47 / [Steen Andersen Bille].

Mainly manuscript draftsPP/BOW/K.5/11-31 Mainly typescript draftsPP/BOW/K.5/32-61 ...

Issued under the auspices of the Société de neurologie de Paris, 1906-18.

History is dominated by A-list deaths: queens beheaded, archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones, and which of the old ...

The book of days : a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character / ...

Hypnotism : its facts, theories and related phenomena with explanatory anecdotes, descriptions and reminiscences / by Carl Sextus.

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 ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...