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The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women

Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.

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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?

In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.

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  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • World War One: women working in a factory
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, the revolutionary women's army attacks Nanking. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • Boer War: page two of an article entitled "women in the war" with illustrations of a ceremony on the hospital ship "Maine" and the hospital ship "Princess of Wales". Halftone, 1900, after text by A. Hugh Fisher and pictures by S. Begg.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.
  • Boer War: people queueing to fill buckets from a well in the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • Boer War: people, tents and the field hospital at the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • Boer War: soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children on the ground. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after M. Ellis.
  • Jane Augusta Fry and Richenda E. Reynolds, two British Quaker women providing relief in Metz to casualties of the Franco-Prussian War. Photograph, ca. 1870.
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