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The medieval childbirth guide: 6 tips for pregnant mothers in the Middle Ages
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Giving birth in the 17th century
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Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds
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The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?
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Plagues of our past
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Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer
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Hippocrates and humours: medicine in ancient Greece
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Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history
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Aids: the epidemic that changed Britain
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Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust
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Merchants of doom: the traders who profited from the Black Death
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“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”
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The gender pain gap: perceptions of women’s health through history
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When and where were the first Paralympics held?
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