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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

  • Article

Equality in genetics

Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.

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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly. Engraving, 1818.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior. Coloured aquatint, 1810.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly. Coloured aquatint, attributed to T. H. Shepherd, 1815.
  • [Undated handbill (1878) advertising an exhibition of W. Campbell, the Scottish Giant, at the Egyptian Hall (London)].
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly. Engraving by A. H. Payne, 1847, after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly. Engraving by A. McClatchy, 1828, after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior, with an exhibition about Mexico. Lithograph by A. Aglio.
  • [Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
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