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A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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Homesick for planet Earth

Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.

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Pain and the power of activism

Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.

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  • British servicemen in drag acting out a cooking class. Photograph, 191-.
  • British servicemen in drag acting out a cooking class. Photograph, 191-.
  • Ali Gharbi, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): an earthen field oven with metal cooking equipment on a British military camp. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The British front (?), Tigris, Iraq, (formerly Mesopotamia): soldiers in the Indian cooking area of the trenches. Photograph by P.F. Gow, 1916 (?).
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
  • "What's cooking?" : November-December : seasonable recipes selected and tested by the Home service advisers of the gas industry / British Gas Council ; illustrated by Joan Martin May.
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