Stories
- In pictures
How to handle your period: ten pieces of (bad) advice from history
Period pains are nothing new. Nor are innovative suggestions for how to deal with them.
- Article
How writing helps me manage schizophrenia
For Erica Crompton, writing is much more than a career. It’s an essential component of her mental health toolkit.
- In pictures
The cinchona tree, malaria and colonisation
Ever since the discovery of cinchona bark as a treatment for malaria in 17th-century South America, the cinchona tree has accompanied European colonisation around the world. Kim Walker tracks the human and ecological impact of this global commodity.
- In pictures
Water of life?
From ancient sources of spiritual sustenance to the modern spa, Ross MacFarlane traces a brief history of healing waters.
Catalogue
- Books
Sources for the history of science, 1660-1914 / by David Knight.
Knight, David M.Date: 1975- Books
Sources for English local history / W.B. Stephens.
Stephens, W. B.Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
Sources of Indian tradition.
Date: 1988- Books
Sources of European Community funding.
Date: [1995]- Archives and manuscripts
Sources for educational material
Date: 1977-1978Reference: SA/ICM/L/1/5Part of: International Confederation of Midwives
