Stories
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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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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
Catalogue
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When the right answer is a question : students as explainers at the Exploratorium / by Ellen Klages with Darlene Librero and Jamie Bell, Explainer program developers.
Klages, Ellen, 1954-Date: [1995], ©1995- Pictures
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An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
Cham, 1819-1879.Date: [1864]Reference: 16808iPart of: Actulités- Pictures
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A Greenwich Pensioner showing the Thornhill decorations in the Painted Hall to a family of visitors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after [J. N.] Esq, 1807.
Date: 26 April 1807Reference: 31461i- Books
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Guide through the University of Cambridge, in two tours. The first meant for persons who stay in Cambridge but a short time, merely for a look at the principal objects en passant. The second will be found extremely advantageous to those who are desirous of taking a narrow and close survey of the university.
Harraden, Richard Bankes, 1778-1862.Date: 1800?]- Books
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Harraden's descriptive guide through the University of Cambridge, in two tours. The first meant for persons who stay in Cambridge but a short time, merely for a look at the principal objects en passant. The second will be found extremely advantageous to those who are desirous of taking a narrow and close survey of the University.
Harraden, Richard Bankes, 1778-1862.Date: 1800?]