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Is fake news killing fictive art?

Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.

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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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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?

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  • A graph showing statistics for serious industrial accidents in Austria, 1927-1933: a devil tries to raise the statistics, workers with ropes try to lower them. Colour lithograph, ca. 1934.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • A first-aider tends to a man bleeding profusely after a fall off a broken ladder; a message about HIV/AIDS and accidents in the workplace; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • A man in protective costume, while doing dangerous work, uses a canvas screen to protect others from risk. Colour lithograph after Ludwig, 1950.
  • A hornet, and a metal band which has sprung loose from around a crate, comparing the effects of the two. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris.
  • A booted foot about to tread on hazards (shown as vignettes): a loose bolt on the ground, defective floorboards, and untied laces). Colour lithograph after Arthur G. Mills.
  • A house painter on a platform with a waist-high crossbeam to prevent an accidental fall. Colour lithograph by A. Th. Schwarz, ca. 1957.
  • Dangerous situations in factories: six scenes. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • Dangerous situations in factories: six scenes. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • A spanner and an adjustable spanner, as if in conversation, standing against a brick wall covered with a spider's web. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris, 1945.
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