Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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![[Membership card (Certificate of enrolment) for the British Red Cross Society. Used in December 1942].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28491233_0004.jp2/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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![[Membership form (Form D (8) - certificate of enrolment) for the British Red Cross Society. Issued in February 1938].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28508919_0003.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Membership form (Form D (8) - certificate of enrolment) for the British Red Cross Society. Issued in February 1938].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28508919_0002.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Postage stamps ephemera. Box 6A, Great Britain 1.
- Books
First aid manual : the authorised manual of St. John Ambulance, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, and the British Red Cross / Lotte Newman [and others] ; foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Date: 2001
- Ephemera
- Online
The emblem of mercy and help : a Christmas greeting to one who wears the red cross.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Books
- Online
A strange and wounderfull [sic] yet true relation of the assembling of the crows of England Scotlad [sic] and Ireland near, Berwick-Upon Tweed, at which time was Fought the most Bloody Battle, never heretofore heard off, in which Battle so many thousands were kill'd that few Remain'd alive; And these mortaly Wounded and their Wings Pluck'd Asalso [sic] then appeared Thomas Rymer, in whichhe [sic] foretells strange things that shall happen in the Letter end of this Year or the begning of the next, to the great Comfor of all Britain and Ireland
Date: 1715
- Ephemera
- Online
The Junior Red Cross ; improvement of health, prevention of disease, mitigation of suffering.
League of Red Cross SocietiesDate: [between 1923 to 1934?]