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How chloroform shaped the murder mystery

Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.

  • Article

Finding my body through the wilderness

Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.

  • Book extract

The history of brainwashing

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.

  • Book extract

Chasing down a mystery illness

In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.

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  • HIV / AIDS style guide / National Union of Journalists & UK NGO AIDS Consortium for the Third World.
  • HIV / AIDS style guide / National Union of Journalists & UK NGO AIDS Consortium for the Third World.
  • HIV / AIDS style guide / National Union of Journalists & UK NGO AIDS Consortium for the Third World.
  • HIV / AIDS style guide / National Union of Journalists & UK NGO AIDS Consortium for the Third World.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Well-known journalists sitting at desks in a temple containing statues of public figures; representing the sycophancy of the press. Coloured etching by Charles Williams, 1814.
  • A 16th-century journalist is encouraged to make up some scandal. Etching by A. Ashley after G.H. Rodwell.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
  • Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
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Perspective Tour and Workshop with Dom Smith

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Part of Perspective Tours

  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Hybrid Humans with Harry Parker

Online | In our building
Available to watch
  • Speech-to-text
  • Audio described
  • Discussion

Redefining Beauty

Online | In our building
Available to watch
  • Hearing loop
  • British Sign Language
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