Stories
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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Principles of labor legislation / by John R. Commons and John B. Andrews. Prepared in co-operation with the American Bureau of Industrial Research.
Commons, John R. (John Rogers), 1862-1945.Date: [1916]
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The American woman : her changing role worker, homemaker, citizen / Women's Bureau ; United States Department of Labor.
Date: 1948- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence between Heatley and Robert D Coghill, Director Fermentation Division, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Peoria, Illinois, USA
Date: 1943-1944Reference: PP/NHE/B/1/12Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Archives and manuscripts
[Balfour's South American Expedition]
Date: 1914Reference: WA/PHO/Bsr/1Part of: Photographs- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research
Date: 1913-1939Reference: WA/BSR