Stories
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
- Article
Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
- 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.
- Photo story
The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British American Tobacco Co
Date: 1958-1972Reference: PP/WVM/A/1Part of: Mayneord, Professor William Valentine- Archives and manuscripts
BAT (British American Tobacco Company Ltd), includes correspondence with G Hargreaves, Director of Public Relations
Date: 1976Reference: SA/ASH/R/8Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Ephemera
Body encircling / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Ephemera
Wrist circling / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Ephemera
Trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]