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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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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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  • Luxor, Egypt; blacksmith selling his wares. Shows men, one with a goat, examining metal implements. Trades such as smithing are often performed by landless villagers who are often amongst the poorest groups. In 1990, as much as 40% of the rural population was landless. These people often provide village services including carpentry, machinery maintenance, and livestock herding or cultivate land for absentee landlords as tenants and sharecroppers. Photographed in January 1990.
  • A group of medical staff appealing to help with family planning issues: a calendar promoting the Population Education Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A woman in shorts stands smoking before a group of 3 people around a table with drinks and snacks with a warning about the importance of using condoms to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Republique Togolaise, Ministère de la santé publique et de la population. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A group of people eating around a table, an enlarged insect on skin, and two women in an office with the message 'How is HIV not spread'; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: a woman with prominent coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: a woman with prominent coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nepal: three Newar men selling produce, seated. Photograph by Clarence Comyn Taylor, ca. 1860.
  • AIDS education poster from Thailand
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