Stories
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Death and our digital ghosts
When we die, our data lives on. And as companies are increasingly spotting money-making opportunities from digital legacies, now could be the time to think about – and control – yours.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
Catalogue
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A rare gift of the tropics / by Jorge Zontal for General Idea ; lithography by Marjeta Morinc.
General Idea (Firm)Date: [2023]- Pictures
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The word 'AIDS' in the colours of the West German flag, advertising the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher AIDS-Stiftungen. Colour lithograph by General Idea, ca. 1989 (?).
General Idea (Firm)Date: [1989?]Reference: 673133i- Pictures
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The word "AIDS" repeated many times in the style of the painting "Love" by Robert Indiana. Colour lithograph by General Idea, ca. 1987.
General Idea (Firm)Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 662793i- Books
World development report. 2019, The changing nature of work.
Date: [2019]- Archives and manuscripts
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880-1958)
Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958Date: 1915-1960Reference: PP/MCS