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An animated almanac for the modern world

Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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The meanings of hurt

In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.

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  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • Make a world of difference : Take care : World AIDS Day Dec. 1 / Lothian Health Board, Lothian Regional Council.
  • Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Two horizontal red ribbons surround a globe of the world representing an advertisement for World Aids Day 1st December 1994 by Hounslow Council. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • The National Council of Defence Medical Board during World War One, chaired by General Gorgas (centre). Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1914/1918.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "At the best alcohol is an expensive luxury; at the worst it is a terrible poison; in between it is a dangerous drug." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
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