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Laughing at disaster

If joking around can help us cope when the worst happens, could comedy be a useful way to connect on climate change?

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Surviving as a working-class woman without work

An enforced period of unemployment was extremely tough for Claire Hart, a working-class woman with a strong work ethic. Here she describes her feelings during this difficult time.

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The psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • The grim reaper attacks a young woman shielding a centaur and nine vignettes show disasters predicted to occur in the year 1834, including a fire in London that destroyed the Houses of Parliament and part of the city. Aquatint.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • Mining: A full acount of the dreadful disaster...1823
  • Two angels blowing trumpets, about to cause disaster at the Apocalypse. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Royal West India Mail Steamer 'Tyne'. Dr. Acland - a passenger wrote a long letter to the 'Oxford Herald' about this disaster.
  • A child with diarrhoea, malnutrition and vector related disease and means of prevention: The Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph by P. Wambu, ca. 2000.
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
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