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How do advertisers get inside our heads?

Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.

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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson, a retired American professional basketball, wearing the USA flag and a gold medal with the message: "What can you do to avoid AIDS"; with the same image on the front cover of a book also entitled "Magic Johnson L'amour sans risque" published by J'ai Lu; an advertisement by the book publishers, J'ai Lu [from the Flammarion group]. Colour lithograph.
  • Observations on the scurvy: with a review of the theories lately advanced upon that disease; and the opinions of Dr. Milman refuted from practice / [Thomas Trotter].
  • An essay on the shaking palsy / by James Parkinson.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Thomas Sydenham.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • Confessions of an English opium-eater / [Thomas De Quincey].
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