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The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

Exploring how the experience of mental illness have been shaped over centuries and what the future might hold.

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

Read a complete set of gallery captions for Being Human, our gallery that explores how we think and feel about ourselves, our bodies and our relationship with the world around us.

This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.