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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

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Graphic battles in pharmacy

James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.

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The ancient doctors who refused payment

The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.

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  • Assessed taxes:-cases : No. 2355.-County of Somerset, District of Bristol City.
  • Assessed taxes:-cases : No. 2355.-County of Somerset, District of Bristol City.
  • Deed of covenant (tax recovery form) / London Lighthouse.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Jesus calls Matthew from among the tax officials. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • A Vision of the Repeal of the Window Tax. 'Hulloh Old Fellow, we're glad to see You here.'
  • A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • Four men sit round a tax collector and blow smoke in his face. Coloured aquatint,by J.C. Ziegler, 1799, after R. Newton.
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