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How an animation educated the army

In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.

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Life lessons across the digital divide

What could 86-year-old Tony teach 20-something Adele as she showed him how to use his smartphone? Rather a lot about digital exclusion, it turns out.

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You’ve been warned

Iconic graphic design devised to admonish, amuse, inform and empower.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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  • Morning and evening amusements, at Merlin's Mechanical Museum, No. 11, Princes Street, Hannover Square.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the baby incubators building (right) on the Pike (an avenue of amusements), thronging with visitors. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Pike (an avenue of amusements): costumed performers, including men and women on camels and an elephant, posing in a group. Photograph, 1904.
  • Southwark Fair, a renowned place of amusement, with a variety of theatrical establishments. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Southwark Fair, a renowned place of amusement, with a variety of theatrical establishments. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Malvolio speaks to Olivia in a room, to the amusement of Maria. Stipple engraving by T. Ryder after J.H. Ramberg.
  • [Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
  • A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • A woman trader at the Halles market in Paris defends her conduct in conversation with an official as another woman looks on in amusement. Lithograph by N. Charlet, 1825.
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