Stories
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
“Tobacco Advertising – the case for a ban”. ASH's Brief on the proposed European Directive to ban all tobacco advertising
Date: 1993Reference: PP/CMF/J/10/2Part of: Fletcher, Charles Montague (1911-1995), epidemiologist- Archives and manuscripts
Advertising
Date: 1985-1993Reference: SA/ASH/T/5/34Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Player's Navy Mixture tobacco advertisement
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/7Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Tobacco advertising and sponsorship - the next three years.
Date: 1986Reference: SA/ASH/T/5/8Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH