Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
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William Pitt the younger as a Roman charioteer, sitting on a chariot drawn by the British lion and the white horse of Hanover, vanquishes the advocates of peace with France. Etching by J. Gillray, 1795.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: April 30 1795Reference: 585566i- Books
The life of Sir Humphry Davy : Bart., LL. D., late president of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. / by John Ayrton Paris.
Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.Date: 1831- Books
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Books
Catalogue of the International Health Exhibition Library : division I. - health.
International Health Exhibition (1884 : London, England)Date: 1884- Books
The ginger child : on family, loss and adoption / Patrick Flanery.
Flanery, Patrick, 1975-Date: 2019