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The island of tranquillity

What would your island of tranquillity look like?

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The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

  • Book extract

The history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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Deciding a date for the end of the world

When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.

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  • Message in numerous languages of the Pacific Islands that AIDS and HIV does not respect tradition culture or religion; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Lancets. Pacific from Australia, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands. In The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Collection
  • Numerous children's faces with a message about AIDS related orphans in the Pacific; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by André Passa, 1993.
  • Poulaho, King of the Friendly islands (south Pacific), drinking kava during a ceremony. Engraving by W. Sharp after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / by Captain David Porter, in the United States frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Containing descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands.
  • Researches in the western Pacific : being a report on the results of the expedition sent from the London School of Tropical Medicine to the Ellice, Tokelau, and Samoan Islands in 1921-1922 / by Francis W. O'Connor.
  • A couple walking along a beach, representing a safer sex advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by Jipé Le Bars and Martial Dosdane, 1992.
  • Two Fijian couples sitting chatting among trees with a backdrop of a bamboo fence and message about community committment to prevent AIDS; advertisement by the Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Programme (PIASPP). Colour lithograph by Jipé Le Bars and Martial Dosdane, 1992.
  • Map of the world in outline, with pacific in centre.
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