Stories
- Article
WhatsApp aunties and the spread of fake news
The advantages of WhatApp chat groups – especially as a cost-free way of keeping in touch with family around the world – make them fertile ground for the spread of bogus medical advice. Writer Rianna Walcott explores how to encourage ‘aunties’ in the community to question the truth of unattributed health hoaxes.
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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?
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
Catalogue
- Books
The British anti-psychiatrists : from institutional psychiatry to the counter-culture, 1960-1971 / Oisín Wall.
Wall, OisínDate: 2019- Books
Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert & Anita Traninger.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Essay on Inventions to Counter Air Attacks
Date: Mid 20th CenturyReference: HALDANE/2/1/3/54Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Youthquake : the growth of a counter-culture through two decades / Kenneth Leech.
Leech, Kenneth, 1939-2015.Date: 1973- Books
Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.
Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-Date: [2006], ©2006