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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

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Maintenance

Scrub, moisturise, cut and clean. What's your essential maintenance routine?

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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Shame’s long shadow

What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.

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  • Consultant surgeon in scrubs
  • Doctor in scrubs making notes
  • Doctor in scrubs making notes
  • Doctor in scrubs making notes
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • An oil palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
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