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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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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 secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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  • A black man in blue shorts stands chained at the feet and hands, representing a black person without understanding of AIDS as a slave to ignorance. Colour lithograph by Deborah Riley for the South Carolina AIDS Education Network.
  • Church of St. Mildred, Whippingham: Winchester Diocesan Training College floor plan. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt, 1863.
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • National school, Clerkenwell, London. Wood engraving by J.R. Jobbins.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • City of Oxford: panoramic view of the High Street with views of the colleges and churches. Etching by H. Toussaint.
  • City of Oxford: panoramic view of the High Street with views of the colleges and churches. Etching by H. Toussaint.
  • A black background with an upside down red rose and a lit candle with a reminder to call for compassion to save lives against AIDS; an advertisement by the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program, Department of Health, Philippines. Colour lithograph by Charlie Agatep Associates Co. Ltd., ca. 1995.
  • A representative of the House of Lords offers whatever they want to a brewer, a mine owner, and a clergyman, but refuses a worker the right to ride along the Thames embankment. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • A family educating themselves on HIV and AIDS: four figures; advertising an AIDS prevention fair and exhibiton for families in Tsuen Wan district, Hong Kong, supported by the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
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