Stories
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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The hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Homer. Stipple engraving, 1802, after R. Duppa, 1798, after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Date: Jan.y 1st 1802Reference: 3167787iPart of: Heads from the fresco pictures of Raffaello in the Vatican.
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Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870-1871Reference: 19830i
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Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939]Reference: 545742i- Books
Better sight : caring for your eyes : advice for older people / Help the Aged.
Date: 2007
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A man in Mexico is carrying a blind old man in a chair on his back in order to attract alms. Coloured lithograph by C. Linati, 1828.
Linati, Claudio, 1790-1832.Date: [1828]Reference: 37206i