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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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  • Heredity in man / by R. Ruggles Gates.
  • The Gates-Bonwill and Howland-Perry crowns.
  • Charles Gates Dawes. Photograph by Eugene L. Ray.
  • Left, eight rows of verticals, gates and loops; right, eight rows of gates and scrolls. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A map of Jerusalem with its gates. Woodcut.
  • Titlepage to Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948
  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.
  • Red saltires, zigzags, diagonals and gates. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: the gates of the maternity home. Process print, 1929.
  • Architecture: decorative iron gates at Worsley Hall, Lancashire. Wood engraving after E. Blore.
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