Stories
- In pictures
Telling Scotland about AIDS
Find out how activists and organisations working on AIDS information campaigns in 1980s Scotland used cartoons, kilts, and candid language to convey their message.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Article
The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Film
First Aid.
Date: 198?- Archives and manuscripts
First Aid Commandant, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
Date: 1938-1942Reference: PP/LEW/C/3/1-2Part of: Lewis, Sir Thomas- Archives and manuscripts
First Aid and Safety certificates
Date: 1921-1923Reference: WTI/SGB/A.7/6Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Ephemera
First aid hints.
Date: [1935?]- Books
First aid to the injured : arranged according to the revised syllabus of the First Aid Course of the St. John Ambulance Association / by James Cantlie.
Cantlie, James, 1851-1926.Date: 1914