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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 ...

The Eugenics Society was founded, under the name Eugenics Education Society, in 1907, to promote public awareness of eugenic problems, i.e. the existence of hereditary qualities both positive and ...

<p>Leaflet delivered to all households in Britain in 1986/1987 (?) in a sealed envelope (EPH503:2) to inform them about AIDS. The cover resembles a polished black marble slab, with "AIDS" chiseled out ...

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the body at our new major exhibition. ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their ...

Credit: A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer, M.D. F.R.S. and corresponding member of the Medical Society of London. Being the essay to ...

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 ...

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry. The four films in the ...

'1880 THAT' is a new exhibition, which explores sign language and the right to communicate. It brings together new and recent work by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The exhibition ...

I wanted to visit Bolivia but was unable to afford a plane ticket. Even if I’d been able to, travelling there would have been excessive and unnecessary. Also, I was terrified of flying. All that ...

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 ...

'Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy' - lecture delivered at Manchester University, May 1959, original TS and proofs Date: 1959 Reference: PP/KLE/C.19 Part of: Klein, Melanie ...