Stories
- Article
NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
- Books
The bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elkin.
Perrot, MichelleDate: [2018]- Books
Migraine : a history / Katherine Foxhall.
Foxhall, KatherineDate: 2019- Books
The clean body : a modern history / Peter Ward.
Ward, W. PeterDate: [2019]- Books
The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
Date: [2015]- Books
The Brutish Museums : the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution / Dan Hicks.
Hicks, Dan, 1972-Date: 2020