Stories
- 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.
- Article
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Article
Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
"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.
Mitchell, Edward Rosslyn, 1879-1965Date: [Between 1925 and 1935?]- Books
The pub and the people : a worktown study / by Mass-Observation.
Mass-Observation (Firm)Date: 1943- Books
Beer is best 1992 : best quality, choice, variety, value / [Brewers' Society].
Date: 1992- Books
Choice : consumers' views of pub-going 1992 / compiled by Mike Ripley [and others].
Date: 1992
- Ephemera
Simpson's celebrated 2/- fish dinner : absolutely the best : menu: turbot, stewed eels, fried sole, smelts, whitebait, haunch of mutton, vegetables, cheese & bread : dinner in London : Three Tuns, Billingsgate Market, E.C. / proprietor Charles Best.
Best, Charley.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]