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80 days ago

Photographer Joy Gregory on her new project, decades in the making: ‘A lot of people I worked with on it have died’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A new retrospective by the Black British artist plays with everything from the Victorians’ use of flowers to Eurocentric beauty standards – including one piece she started in 2003

There weren’t many B…

4 months ago

Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death was coming for me’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now

The year my body revolted, I read all 1,296 pag…

8 months ago

The Victorians' obsession with cocaine: How discovery of 'wonder' drug's numbing effect in EYE operations triggered explosion in popularity - and even Sherlock Holmes was a user

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

When its anaesthetic properties were demonstrated in 1884, one US neurologist breathlessly hailed a discovery 'almost as wonderful and important' as electricity.

9 months ago

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