Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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When a private pee is a public disgrace
The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.
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Catalogue
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Free thoughts on the present state of public affairs. In a letter to a Friend.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Observations on the Lying-in and Inoculation Charity, of the city of Dublin. By a Friend to the public.
Friend to the Public.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The question on some late dismissions truly stated. By a Friend to the Army and the Constitution. In answer to An address to the public, &c.
Friend to the army and the constitution.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A review of the constitution of Great Britain: Being the substance of a speech delivered in a numerous assembly on the following question: "Is the petition of Mr. Horne Tooke a libel on the House "of Commons, or a just statement of public grievances "arising from an unfair representation of the people?" By a Friend to the people.
Friend to the People.Date: 1791- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on the diarrhoea infantum. Submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York: William Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. president; for the degree of Doctor of Physic; on the fifth day of May, 1795. By Peter Anderson, A.B. and citizen of the state of New-York. [Three lines in Latin from Nichols]
Anderson, Peter, -1803.Date: --1795--
