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Dazzling luxury

As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.

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The psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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Disability in the post-pandemic world

Disabled people have suffered more than most during Covid-19, but there is still a chance to build a kinder society. Dolly Sen explores whether we will come together, or allow more brutal disparities to develop in the worsening recession.

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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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  • Leisure pursuits on a summer's evening on and about the river. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • AIDS is hard to get : information on AIDS in Camden libraries / London Borough of Camden Leisure Department Community Information Services.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: a café scene in Nisch where soldiers and the wounded are at leisure. Wood engraving.
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