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Theriac: An ancient brand?

The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.

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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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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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  • Genuine Swiss gruyere cheese made in Switzerland : William Tell brand : 8 oz net : 12 portions / Horner's Creamery.
  • William Thomas Brande. Photograph, 1863.
  • William Thomas Brande, "Lectures on chemistry"
  • William Thomas Brande. Lithograph by T. Bridgford.
  • Alfred Swaine Taylor and William Thomas Brande. Photograph.
  • William Thomas Brande. Stipple engraving by C. W. Sharpe after L. Wyon.
  • Portrait of William Thomas Brande, from the portrait in the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
  • The south gate, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk: leading to the harbour. Line engraving by J. Storer after W. Brand.
  • The south gate, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk: leading to the harbour. Line engraving by J. Storer after W. Brand.
  • Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.
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