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Policing women’s clothing

It’s time to stop policing what women wear.

  • Article

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.

  • In pictures

The history of sanatoriums and surveillance

The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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  • Police officer with a foot and mouth notice
  • Cattle plague: broadsheet issued by Police, Scotland, 1867
  • Metropolitan Police Laboratory, Hendon: the opening of the laboratory, 1935. Photograph, 1935.
  • Police dog : 48 / Royal Mail Group Ltd. ; designed by Redpath.
  • Police dog : 48 / Royal Mail Group Ltd. ; designed by Redpath.
  • Kuching, Sarawak: the police station. Photograph.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A police runner in his uniform. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Malaya: two seated Malay dignatories, Tengku Zia Uddin and Raja Ismail, surrounded by their staff and Klang Police. Photograph by J. Birch, 1874.
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Is Tear Gas as British as Tea?

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