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Selling sex and sacrificing safety
Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.
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Meet the climate emergency
Find out what led Yinka Shonibare to create the compelling artwork ‘Refugee Astronaut’.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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Helmet flower (Aconitum anthora L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18230i
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Helmeted bronze figurine, Bronze Age.
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Jo Spence in a motorcycle helmet.
Spence, JoDate: [1982]Reference: 3063623iPart of: Picture of health?- Books
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A clear and comprehensive view of the Gospel ministry, calculated for the use, improvement and edification of the Christian world in general, and young ministers in particular; carefully taken from the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, And humbly recommended to the candid and attentive Perusal of all the Churches and Ministers of Christ of every Denomination. By the late Revd. John Eades, Minister of the Gospel.
Eades, John, Revd.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
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Henry S. Wellcome in warrior helmet