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The white tears of Taranaki

Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Finding a cure for homesickness

While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.

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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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  • University, Sydney, New South Wales. Coloured lithograph.
  • An Australian lily (Doryanthes excelsa) picked in New South Wales. Photograph, 1882.
  • A fish of New South Wales. Etching by P. Mazell after D. Butler.
  • A fish of New South Wales. Etching by P. Mazell after D. Butler.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an Australian exhibit: New South Wales agricultural produce. Photograph, 1904.
  • Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales: members of Life Saving Clubs put on a display at a surf carnival. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Two gay men kissing with a snake entwined around them and a warning about HIV from the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
  • Sydney, New South Wales: the quarantine station: view from the mainland showing the isolation hospital and the jetty. Reproduction of a photograph, 1880/1910 (?).
  • Two men kissing with the words 'HIV positive or negative' representing an advertisment for safe sex by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
  • Two lesbian women preparing to inject themselves representing a warning to the lesbian community about being HIV positive by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
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