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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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  • People voting in the election for Chancellor of Cambridge University. Wood engraving, 1847.
  • Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880: William Gladstone runs to relieve an old woman of her burden; representing his intention to relieve Midlothian of the burden caused by fraudulent voting and land laws. Wood engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
  • A country doctor enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A man rushing into a barber-surgeons' shop to inform the practitioner of the imminent need to vote. Lithograph.
  • A country doctor out in his horse and trap, enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • What shall we play today? : put your hand up for your favourite activity and play the game that gets the most votes ... : teacher wallchart / Change 4 Life.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • Number of votes in a plebiscite on the appointment of Prince Louis Napoleon as prince-president of France in 1852; in a frame decorated with the dove of peace. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1853.
  • The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.
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