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Thunderbolts and lightning

Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Titans in the landscape

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Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

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  • The plague of hail and thunder. Woodcut.
  • The plague of hail and thunder. Coloured etching.
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Cerauniae (thunder-bolts) in Olaf Worm's Museum. From figure in Museum Wurmianum.
  • Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Engraving.
  • Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Coloured engraving.
  • Raijin (or Raiden), the god of thunder, receiving medical treatment. Colour woodcut by Kunitoshi, ca. 1884.
  • A thunder storm approaching a farm, the workers moving the animals into shelter. Engraving by B. Crivellari after M. Ricci.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
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