Growing up in Sudan, Jumana Eltgani knew the highs of water flowing and the lows of dry days. Her family’s clay zeer kept water cool and easy to share. Now, amid war, that spirit of generosity is ...
Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
This display, featuring a rare medieval birth scroll, explores protective practices and beliefs surrounding pregnancy, childbirth and infertility from the past to the present. Explore what it means to ...
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Living in the shadows : eunuchs and gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose.
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, ...
show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.
In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...
Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...
Characters travel back in time to challenge sexologists Marie Stopes, Sigmund Freud, Hirschfield and Henry Havelock Ellis and their ideas, many of which continue to shape society’s thinking about sex ...
show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...
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