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Cinematic universe

Streaming services have been real quiet since this comic went live.

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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

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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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  • Medicinsk-Historiske Museum, Kbenhavans Universities. Plans of the Titkens Gaard. First floor
  • Medicinsk-Historiske Museum, Kbenhavans Universities. Plans of the Titkens Gaard. Ground floor (Stueplan).
  • Universities and their sons : history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees / editor-in-chief, General Joshua L. Chamberlain ; introduction by W.T. Harris.
  • The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare : 7a Lamb's Conduit Passage, London, W.C.1 : dear Sir or Madam ... / Fougasse.
  • UFAW : The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, 7a Lamb's Conduit Passage, London, W.C.1 : dear Sir or Madam ... / Fougasse.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeos. : The vanity of the craft of physick. Or, a new dispensatory: wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools, in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c. and the particular medicines of the shops. With an humble motion for the reformation of the universities, and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie. To the parliament of England. / By Noah Biggs, chymiatrophilos.
  • Les fêtes du 6e Centenaire de l'université de Montpellier.
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Neutrinos

The Forum
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The Blind Teacher

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