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The shifting shape of language

Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.

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Sick of the theatre

What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Being trans in the world of sex work

Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.

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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Catholic University of America exhibit. Photograph, 1904.
  • The Royal Veterinary College (University of London) : Royal College St., London, N.W.1 : telephone 01-387 2898 : with the librarian's compliments.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • Concert of hope : Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales, Wet Wet Wet : with very special guests Eternal, Bitty McLean, Squeeze : Wembley Arena 1st December 1995, World AIDS Day / The Rod Gunner Organisation in association with Andrew Miller and the Precious Organisation.
  • A view from the universe : St. Peter's at Rome : in which the various empires, kingdoms, republics, states, principal islands, colonies, and discoveries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, alphabetically arranged, are shown at one glance, and included in a single line, with the situation, extent, chief cities, their population, distances in British miles from London ...
  • A view from the universe : St. Peter's at Rome : in which the various empires, kingdoms, republics, states, principal islands, colonies, and discoveries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, alphabetically arranged, are shown at one glance, and included in a single line, with the situation, extent, chief cities, their population, distances in British miles from London ...
  • Hidden Learning : Chrysallis, paintings exploring women in science.
  • Microbead 'lasers' engulfed by cells, artistic impression
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