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The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.

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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

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The work of wet-nursing

Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.

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A history of twins in science

For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.

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  • A man inserts his hand in the back pocket of a woman wearing jeans with the warning 'Gotcha condoms?'; advertisement by the Public Health Commission, Rangapu Hauora Tumatanui, New Zealand. Colour lithograph.
  • Russian public health notice / C. Noel Davis, Commissioner of PublicHealth.
  • Three figures leaning out with their arms joined representing a warning about HIV; advertisement for the Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education services available from the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington. Colour lithograph by Annie Adjchavanich and Jayson Hait.
  • The number five in purple and yellow with a list of five things to do before you have sex; advertisement for Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education Services at the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • Beate, Bianca and Babette, three male models dressed in women's clothes with a glamour checklist that includes safe sex precautions; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education by the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A black man holds a condom between his thumb and finger representing an advertisement for an exhibition on The Art of AIDS Education at Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Massachusetts between April 6 - 20, 1992. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A Latin-American man embraces a black man holding a condom; advertisement for safe sex and the AIDS Program by the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. Lithograph.
  • A Latin-American man holding a condom embraces another who removes his t-shirt; advertisement for safe sex and the AIDS Program by the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. Lithograph.
  • A line of people stand along a shopping street representing a warning about the risk of STD's by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department, Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.
  • The statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, Westminster, with a veteran of the Crimean War and children. Drawing by John Byam Shaw.
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