Stories
- In pictures
Fraught fertility and making royal babies
Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.
- Interview
Refugee health on a pound a day
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
Catalogue
- Books
Mortality patterns in the nineteenth century / Robert Woods.
Woods, RobertDate: 1984- Journals
Mortality statistics.
- Books
Mortality, poverty, and the environment / Robert Woods and John Woodward.
Woods, RobertDate: 1984- Journals
Mortality statistics. Childhood.
Great Britain. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.- Books
Mortality and the mental map of London : Richard Smyth's Obituary / Vanessa Harding.
Harding, Vanessa.Date: 1998