Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
- Article
People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH
- Pictures
- Online
Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
Polumordvinov, A. D., active 1945-1953.Date: 1953Reference: 578480iPart of: Predupredim zabolevani︠︡ia mali︠a︡rieĭ- Archives and manuscripts
"Nerves"
Date: 1970s?Reference: SA/CSP/R.5/5/2Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0006179 - C0007933
Date: 1998-2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/34Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000727 - C0000769
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/18Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive