Stories
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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards
The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
Catalogue
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Children with the words 'How much do your children know about AIDS?'; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667244i
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Jennie Reyes, mother of a son who died of AIDS with a warning in spanish about how children can be infected with the disease; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667381i
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A man looks looks directly out at the viewer with an interview about how talk to your children about AIDS; advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
Date: 10/91 [1991]Reference: 667220i- Books
AIDS & children : a family disease / [written by Marty Radlett and edited by Judith Mariasy].
Radlett, Marty.Date: 1989
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Children living in a world with AIDS : World AIDS Day appeal 1st December 1997 / Pat Macaulay, Chief Executive, ACET.
Macaulay, PatDate: 1997