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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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  • Euston Road, London, from outside Bentley House, showing the Wellcome Building, Friends' House and St Pancras Church with decorations for Coronation Day. Oil painting by Paul A. Lord Methuen RA, 4th Baron, 1953.
  • Euston Road, London, from outside Bentley House, showing the Wellcome Building, Friends' House and St Pancras Church with decorations for Coronation Day. Oil painting by Paul A. Lord Methuen RA, 4th Baron, 1953.
  • Euston Road, London, from outside Bentley House, showing the Wellcome Building, Friends' House and St Pancras Church with decorations for Coronation Day. Oil painting by Paul A. Lord Methuen RA, 4th Baron, 1953.
  • Euston Road, London, from outside Bentley House, showing the Wellcome Building, Friends' House and St Pancras Church with decorations for Coronation Day. Oil painting by Paul A. Lord Methuen RA, 4th Baron, 1953.
  • Euston Road, London, from outside Bentley House, showing the Wellcome Building, Friends' House and St Pancras Church with decorations for Coronation Day. Oil painting by Paul A. Lord Methuen RA, 4th Baron, 1953.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Chinese exhibits: decorative furniture, ornaments and models. Photograph, 1904.
  • A red-figured Greek wine bowl (volute krater) also called "the Hamilton Vase", decorated with figures of men and women around a stele; volutes ornamented with female heads. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • The interior of the smaller church on Mount Verna; decorated with paintings of the life of Christ: birth, descent from the cross and the ascension. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • An Indian woman wearing an elaborate headscarf and pierced ear ornament hands a condom to a man in front of a door within a decorative leaf border; an advertisement for Nirodh condoms as a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • Procession inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
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