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
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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…
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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.
Who is YOUR favourite 'hot' Victorian? Instagram account revealing pictures of 19th century hunks garners legions of fans ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Hot Victorians, which was set up by US-based British man Aaron Radford-Wattley six years ago, has more than 140,000 followers who delight in pictures of attractive men of the past
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