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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century

As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.

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Performance art, frozen in time

For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.

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Thalidomide, a bitter pill

Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.

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  • The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.
  • WAK-Chemie Medical GmbH : Hessenring 63, D-61348 BadHomburg v.d.H., West Germany : Telefon 0 61 72/2 20 73 : Telefax 0 61 72/2 03 17.
  • Shelltox (Shell Tox) insecticide: red men spraying it at insects, and below examples of branded cans and sprays. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Two masks, one red, the other green, broken down the middle: representing the protection of children. Colour lithograph by (Paul?) Reding, 1961.
  • A Roman tomb at Igel, Luxemburg; people in the foreground, a church in the background. Engraving by E. Rooker after W. Pars, 1774.
  • A Roman tomb at Igel, Luxemburg; people in the foreground, a church in the background. Engraving by E. Rooker after W. Pars, 1774.
  • Bad Ems, Germany, with five smaller sketches of the town. Wood engraving by "EH.XA.", after 1872.
  • Ambulancemen picking up the wounded from a battlefield. Line engraving.
  • Britannia pointing to Sanatogen, Formamint, and German colonies in Africa and the East Indies as new British possessions. Colour process print after E.F. Skinner.
  • Multicolour forms to celebrate the seventh Bundesversammlung der Menschen mit HIV und AIDS (national gathering of people with HIV and AIDS). Colour lithograph by b + d, 1996.
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