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This free course was written by Denise McHugh and Rosalind Crone.

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Figure 1: © Fox Photos / Stringer / Getty Images Plus

Figure 2: Science Museum Group

Figure 3: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images

Figure 4: © WorldPhotos / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 5: Courtesy of University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections: MS Gen 1006, fols 14 &15

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Figure 7: © RTÉ Archives

Figure 8: East Midlands Oral History Archive, University of Leicester

Figure 9: © Science & Society Picture Library / Contributor / Getty Images Plus

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Figure 16: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Figure 19: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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Figure 22: The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo

Audio-visual

Activity 10 audio: BBC Sounds: Free Thinking: Censorship and Sex: 21 May 2019: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ sounds/ play/ m00057k4

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