Boys swimming naked at Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893. Process print by F. Frith & Co., 190-. Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] Reference: 2046024i ...

Gloucester (England). Rural District Council.

Blackwell (England). Rural District Council.

Correspondence with and from the Wellcome Trustees regarding the Wellcome- Marston Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East. The file includes correspondence regarding the management and ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

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 ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

In the Scottish hamlet of Towie, a rusted metal crown rises from the churchyard. It’s a rare relic from an era of rampant fear of grave robbing, when contraptions called mortsafes protected the newly ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...