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The shock of cardiac arrest when you’re young and fit

Footballer Christian Eriksen’s on-pitch collapse in 2020, witnessed by thousands, was shocking. Fellow cardiac-arrest survivor Meg Fozzard explores the risks in the young and fit, and how we can all help.

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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice

As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.

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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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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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  • Portrait of Tycho Brahe, a Danish Astronomer
  • Speciality : Mortimer's "Danish" Kiel butter : top and bottom of Low town, Pudsey : prime quality Wiltshire smoked bacon, fresh weekly.
  • [2 stickers showing toadstools. Sold to raise funds for Danish Red Cross Week. ].
  • [Stickers showing toadstools (honningsvamp) Sold to raise funds for Danish Red Cross Week. ].
  • [Stickers showing toadstools (rød fluesvamp). Sold to raise funds for Danish Red Cross Week. ].
  • [Sticker showing a bird (tornirisk). Sold to raise funds for Danish Red Cross Week. ].
  • [4 stickers showing birds (stenpikker, hærfugl etc.). Sold to raise funds for Danish Red Cross Week. ].
  • Parker's celebrated Danish butter colouring : for colouring butter, is by far the best and most economical preparation / Alfred parker.
  • A naked woman making love with a man in jeans near a sun-lit window with the message 'Sex is beautiful'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for The AIDS Secretariat Danish National Board of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A shark's fin protruding out of a blue ocean with the words 'AIDS' above representing the dangers of AIDS; an advertisement to mark the centenary of the Danish AIDS Information system in Fyn. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
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