Animals appear everywhere in human societies, both in a physical sense and as cultural metaphors and myths. When the...
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Animals appear everywhere in human societies, both in a physical sense and as cultural metaphors and myths. When the... |
Who Was Sophia Jex-Blake?
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The Edinburgh Medical School The Edinburgh Medical School was founded in 1726 by an act of... |
The loss of a wife rarely altered a man’s status, but the loss of a husband changed a woman’s life forever. Becoming... |
Mourning is the outward display of grief. It can make the personal, societal. It is loss shared. For much of history... |
The rituals that followed dying at home made death a community event up to the 1900s. Friends and family gathered to... |
Death is universal. But despite this, the way we view our own deaths, the way we prepare for, think about and... |
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the College’s Council heard a number of disciplinary cases regarding... |
The College's collection provides a fascinating insight into both neoclassical sculpture and the history of the... |
Remedies to improve the complexion and remove warts, spots and boils have been in use since antiquity. Donkey milk,... |