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  • William Hunter: his home and anatomy school in 16 Great Windmill Street, London, England. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton after a watercolour.
  • St Christopher's Church, the Bank of England, and St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, with a woman walking through. Engraving by J. Jackson after J. W. Archer.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
  • An aeroplane in the sky inside which are people wearing white t-shirts bearing the slogan 'play safe' as a reminder to protect against AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Services of Hounslow young people's advisory service including advice on HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman holds open a door bearing sign 'Jillian Doran: Health Advisor' with text explaining process of HIV testing; an advertisement by the Hounslow Council's Corporate AIDS/HIV Unit. Colour lithograph.
  • Two horizontal red ribbons surround a globe of the world representing an advertisement for World Aids Day 1st December 1994 by Hounslow Council. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • An Asian man sits beside a woman at a desk with a phone; an advertisement for the Hounslow Council's AIDS/HIV policy. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in shorts and t-shirt bearing label 'Hounslow Leisure' sitting on a seat in a swimming pool; an advertisement for safe sex by the Hounslow Council's Corporate AIDS/HIV Unit. Colour lithograph.
  • Services for Hounslow residents affected by HIV/AIDS incorporating the words HIV/AIDS in yellow in the background. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • The welfare of children in Europe after the defeat of Germany in World War II. Lithograph by the Bureau of Current Affairs, 1946.
  • Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.
  • Our services / West London Gay Men's Project.
  • Our services / West London Gay Men's Project.
  • The Roman bath and the abbey at Bath, England; advertising British spas. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Young, free and protected? / NPL ... Naz Project London.
  • Young, free and protected? / NPL ... Naz Project London.
  • Enema syringe, London, England, 1866-1927
  • Enema syringe, London, England, 1866-1927
  • Enema syringe, London, England, 1866-1927
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph.
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph by J.E. Mayall.
  • The meteorological phenomena, during the second outbreak, from May 20th to November 10th, 1849 : with the deaths from cholera in each week, and those (male and female) from all causes (daily).