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Collecting pandemic stories

Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

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Working well or sick of work?

Sometimes we literally get sick of our jobs. Discover how researchers and medics throughout history have made connections between our work and our wellbeing.

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The Migraine Art Competition Collection

The Migraine Art Competition ran for seven years in the 1980s and resulted in over 500 unique and striking works of art that represent what it means to live with migraine.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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  • Collected works of Francis Sibson
  • Collected works of Francis Sibson / edited by William M. Ord.
  • The collected works of Francis Sibson
  • The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.
  • The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.
  • The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.
  • The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ... / edited by his brother, John Davy.
  • The works ... from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected / [James Gillray].
  • The works ... from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected / [James Gillray].
  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals" : being some account of the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these discliplines / collected, translated, and edited, from his printed works, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary records by Clifford Dobell.
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