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Experience: I was hospitalised after being trapped in a full-body plaster cast

In the spring of 1995 I was studying for my A-levels in Cambridge, along with my best friend, Kate. For her final art exam, Kate wanted to create a male torso in the style of a classical sculpture, ...

I wrote ‘Stop the Boats’ on my mum’s plastercast – then faced barmy council probe after doctor reported me

A MAN who wrote “Stop The Boats!” on his mum’s cast after she broke her leg faced a safe-guarding probe by the local council.
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First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died during the ...
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Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...