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Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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

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

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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

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