Stories
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers presented at Scottish conferences
Date: 1957-1960Reference: SA/EPU/C/7/5Part of: Environmental Protection UK- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH- Books
- Online
Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland, and its effects on the health of the great towns / by William Pulteney Alison.
Date: 1840- Books
- Online
On the cleansing operations of Edinburgh, as compared with other towns / by Henry D. Littlejohn.
Date: 1865