Stories
- Article
A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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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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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Tobacco plantation workers curing and preparing tobacco under a shelter. Engraving, mid-18th century.
Reference: 24995i- Archives and manuscripts
Tobacco Workers' Union report Smoking and Health
Date: 1981-1983Reference: SA/ASH/P/1/26/3Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Farren Tobacco Control Collection
Cecilia FarrenDate: 1970s-2010sReference: PP/FAR- Pictures
A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.
Date: 12 April 1821Reference: 24996i- Pictures
A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
Date: [1683]Reference: 24991i