Stories
- Article
Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
National TB/Leprosy Training Centre, Zaria - Reports 1990-1992
Date: 1990-1992Reference: WTI/LEP/C/4/10Part of: LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)- Books
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On the water supply of Edinburgh : being a paper read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 23d November 1863 / by Alexander Ramsay ; extracted from the Transactions of the Society ; with a map.
Date: 1863- Books
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The water supply in ships from its beginning to the present time / Henry G. Beyer.
Beyer, Henry Gustav, 1850-1918.Date: 1906- Books
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Edinburgh and District Water Bill. St. Mary's Loch scheme. Speeches of Bailie Lewis, convener of works committee, Edinburgh and District Water Trust, at the meetings of town council, on 30th May and 1st June, 1871.
Lewis David Magistrate of the City of Edinburgh.Date: [1871]- Books
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Interim report by the Works Committee of the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees.
Date: [1870]