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Selling sex and sacrificing safety

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

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The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.

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When you can’t return home

Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.

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Born in the NHS

Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.

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  • People in dressing gowns crossing their arms to join hands with each other; a public service message about the need to know about AIDS by the National Association of Social Workers. Colour lithograph.
  • Life or death in India : a paper read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Norwich, 1873 / [by Florence Nightingale] ; with an appendix on life or death by irrigation, 1874.
  • A group of gay men and lesbians frolicking in water representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • The Addictions Forum in association with The National College of industrial Relations present an international conference on alcohol drugs & HIV : 27th and 28th May 1993 at the Burlington Hotel Dublin 4.
  • The Addictions Forum in association with The National College of industrial Relations present an international conference on alcohol drugs & HIV : 27th and 28th May 1993 at the Burlington Hotel Dublin 4.
  • The Addictions Forum in association with The National College of industrial Relations present an international conference on alcohol drugs & HIV : 27th and 28th May 1993 at the Burlington Hotel Dublin 4.
  • The Addictions Forum in association with The National College of industrial Relations present an international conference on alcohol drugs & HIV : 27th and 28th May 1993 at the Burlington Hotel Dublin 4.
  • The face of a young gay man with the words in French "Boys between them" and "desire, love and sexuality" representing an advertisment for the Association des Jeunes Contre le SIDA (A.J.C.S.) and S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay (Paris, France)]. Lithograph.
  • The Addictions Forum in association with The Alcohol Research Group - the University of Edinburgh present the Third National Conference on Drugs & AIDS ... : 3 and 4 November 1992, Queen Mother Conference Centre, Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH12 1JQ.
  • Candlelight memorial in the name of love : Sunday 23 May 1993, 8.15pm Trafalgar Square, 9.15pm St. Martin-in-the-Fields : for everyone affected by HIV and AIDS / co-ordinated by the Terrence Higgins Trust in association with The Name Project (UK) and supported by National AIDS Trust.
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