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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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A flat-packed forest
The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.
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Surviving sex work on the streets
In care at four, on the streets at nine, Charmaine has had a traumatic journey to reach life as it is now: no drugs, no sex work, looking after her mum, and enjoying her grandchildren. Here she writes honestly about her past.
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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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Modern baths and laundries.
Date: [1961]- Pictures
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Baths and laundries, Mayfield, Manchester, England: design drawings with scale and verbal key. Wood engraving, 1858.
Date: 14 August 1858Reference: 18292i- Pictures
Mayfield baths and laundries, Manchester: interior. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after B. Sly after T. Worthington.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 14 August 1858Reference: 18293i- Books
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The Law relating to factories and workshops (including laundries and docks).
Date: 1896- Pictures
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Details of the roof, gallery and private baths of Mayfield baths and laundries, Manchester. Wood engraving, 1858.
Date: 1858Reference: 35060i