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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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The Migraine Art Competition Collection

The Migraine Art Competition ran for seven years in the 1980s and resulted in over 500 unique and striking works of art that represent what it means to live with migraine.

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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack

Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.

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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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  • Kuching, Sarawak: the Public Offices. Photograph.
  • The new Home and Colonial Offices, Westminster, 1875.
  • Trade card of a Nightman. Nightman to His Majesty's Offices
  • Burroughs Wellcome & co offices in 1898
  • Burroughs Wellcome & co offices in 1898
  • Photographic portrait of Denis Parsons Burkitt taken in the Tottenham Court Offices of the MRC circa 1972.
  • Carved panelling in Burroughs Wellcome & Co offices
  • Snow Hill offices of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
  • Wellcome Trust, offices at 1, Park Square West, London, NW1.
  • Wellcome Trust, offices at 1, Park Square West, London, NW1.
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