Stories
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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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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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An old man and a boy taking a shower next to the swimming bath at Stolberg, North Rhine-Westphalia; advertising health benefits of baths and treatments available there for young and old. Colour lithograph after H. Lahaye, 194-.
Lahaye, Heinz, active approximately 1947.Date: 1940-1949Reference: 5130i- Books
Collection of appliances and apparatus for the prevention of accidents in factories / Society for the Protection of Accidents in Factories, Mulhouse (Alsace).
Association pour prévenir des accidents de fabriqueDate: 1895- Books
Pharmaceutical manufacturers of the United States.
Noyes Data Corporation.Date: 1977- Videos
Wellcome Dartford. Computer warehouse complex.
Date: 199?- Videos
Dartford.
Date: 1992