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Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

Anthony Acciavatti works at the intersection of landscape and the history of science and technology. He is the author of the award-winning 'Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River', ...

Credit:Turnbuch für Schulen als Anleitung für den Turnunterricht durch die Lehrer der Schulen / Von Adolf Spiess. Source:Wellcome Collection.

Album of photographs and extracts from brochure re the official opening of the RAMC. Training Group Complex and the Sir Alexander Hood Theatre at Mytchett, Surrey Date: 1981 Reference: RAMC/1966 Part ...

Order book of No. 1 Bearer Company, Army Hospital Corps, in South Africa, under the command of Surgeon Major William Johnston.

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The architecture of purpose-built sanatoriums enabled doctors and nurses to monitor patients more closely – the transparent, open-air designs normalised a disciplinarian regime of surveillance, which ...

F or too many years there has been a persistent untruth that autism is rare in girls and women. The use of classic autistic male characteristics for diagnostic parameters has meant that generations of ...

Not everyone was happy with the growing use of tobacco in Britain. In 1604, King James VI wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, arguing that smoking was dangerous to lung health and offensive to the ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

The British Migraine Association ran a series of migraine art competitions in the 1980s with the intention to share people’s varied experiences of migraine. In the seven years that the competition ran ...