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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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Finding consolation in social isolation

Feeling isolated and anxious during the lockdowns of the last year, Tanya Perdikou found solace in reconnecting to her past and reaching out to neighbours in the present.

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  • Cell nucleus showing interchromatin granule clusters
  • Clusters of abcesses or sores on the back of a woman. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • Margosa (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate clusters of flowers and fruits and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Female genitalia with areas of diseased tissue, and clusters of sores on the top of the thighs to each side. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1856.
  • Female genitalia held open by the hand to show diseased tissue, with clusters of sores at the top of the thighs to each side. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Croton (Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Blume): flowering and fruiting branch tip with separate, numbered fruit clusters and single fruit, both whole and sectioned. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Milking cows: milk tube and cluster
  • Equipment for milking cows: a cluster.
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cluster mallow
  • Milking cows: rough removal of the cluster
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