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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.

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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy

How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.

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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.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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  • Industrial conditions
  • Industrial conditions; firm of Davy & co
  • Women in Industry.
  • Members of the Matchmakers' Union.
  • Women coal bearers. Where the mine was not large enough for horses to work, men pushed the coal on a low carriage: where the ascent is too steep for this method, women bearers were employed carrying buckets on their backs.
  • Child apprentices in textile factory. The children supplement their scanty rations from the pig trough
  • Evolution of Measures for the Nation's Health.
  • View of machine shop, c. 1890
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
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