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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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Audrey in the world

As the collection is fully catalogued, the archive is opened up to the public. A feature film about Audrey premieres, and Audrey gets her own Wikipedia page, so people can learn about her. For archivist Elena, it’s time to step back.

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  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing east. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the American Room showing a reader's table and display case with automatic guide lecture equipment. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the gallery in the Hall of Statuary as adapted for the Library, c. 1960. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary as adapted for the Library, c. 1960. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Oriental Room with a reader, Dr. A. Z. Iskandar, working on Arabic medical manuscripts. Photograph.
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • A message to use condoms while having sex to stop AIDS (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • AIDS clinical trial information service advertisement with the letters 'Call 1-800-Trials A' across the page. Colour lithograph.
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