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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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  • Children before a rural shrine. Woodcut by Gekko, early twentieth century.
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
  • A rural medical practitioner examining a urine specimen, a concerned mother with two children sitting near him. Line engraving by A. Fleischmann, 1839, after J.F.C. Kreul (?).
  • A small girl is feeding leaves to deer in a garden outside a cottage. Coloured lithograph.
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; village children collecting water
  • A farmer is watching a poor girl who is picking up small ears of corn; in the background is an expensive country house. Engraving by J.M. Delatre, 1788, after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Children are rushing out of school to play on the see-saw, their books and caps are on the ground. Coloured lithograph by Stannard & Son.
  • A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
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