Stories
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Article
How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
Catalogue
- Books
Construction workers- active leisure (male) / [National Dairy Council].
Date: 1992]- Videos
Beckenham site safety. Construction workers' video.
Date: 1994- Videos
Beckenham site safety. Service workers' video.
Date: [1994?]
- Pictures
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Italian Panama Canal construction workers (?), Juan Grande. Photograph, ca. 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 562163i
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Panama Canal construction workers on arrival at the train station, Gorgona. Photograph, ca. 1910.
Date: [1910]Reference: 561970i