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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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  • Public Library, National Gallery, Technological Museum, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving by S. Calvert, 1886.
  • Map of St. Albans, Great Britain. In the Public Library, St. Albans via Mr. Gaskell.
  • World War One: Islington Public Library used as a hospital ward. Photograph by Langfier Ltd., 1916.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing east. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the American Room showing a reader's table and display case with automatic guide lecture equipment. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the gallery in the Hall of Statuary as adapted for the Library, c. 1960. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary as adapted for the Library, c. 1960. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Oriental Room with a reader, Dr. A. Z. Iskandar, working on Arabic medical manuscripts. Photograph.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. Etching by J. Shury & Son after G.S. Shepherd.
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