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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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The amateur silversmith

It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.

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  • Queens hospital, Birmingham. Etching.
  • The Soho Manufactory, Birmingham. Etching.
  • Birmingham: Hospitals centre: nurses off duty.
  • Birmingham: Hospitals Centre: an elderly patient.
  • Birmingham: Hospitals Centre, treating a casualty.
  • General hospital, Birmingham. Engraving by T. Radclyffe.
  • General hospital, Birmingham. Engraving by T. Radclyffe.
  • Robert Mynors, surgeon at Birmingham. Oil painting.
  • Robert Mynors, surgeon at Birmingham. Oil painting.
  • Prize birds at the Birmingham Poultry Show.
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