Stories
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The seizure dog
Aparna Nair's dog Charlie made her feel safe in the world. His uncanny ability to sense when she was about to experience a seizure also gave her an unexpected ally in her struggles with epilepsy.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
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Italian Red Cross Hospital ward, during World War I: bedridden male patients are shown reading, playing cards etc, watched over by a female nurse seated at a small table. Photograph, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 581872i- Pictures
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Italian Red Cross Hospital at Arta during World War I: the loggia, where a military patient is shown being admitted to the hospital on a stretcher, while a man parks a bicycle in the foreground. Photograph, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 581905i- Books
British Red Cross : Oxfordshire Branch history, 1909 - 1994 / compiled by Michael Page.
Date: [1995?]- Books
Science et dévouement : le service de santé - la Croix-Rouge : les oeuvres de solidarité du guerre et d'après-guerre / publié avec la collaboration de MM. J. Abadie ... [and 50 others] ; secrétaire général, François Albert ; dédicace de M. Justin Godart ; poème liminaire de Maurice Bouchor ; préface de M. le Général Maunoury.
Date: [1918], ©1918- Ephemera
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Notice to V.A.D. members applying for special service / Joint Women's V.A.D. Department.
Great Britain. War Office. Joint Women's V.A.D. Department.Date: [between 1910 and 1919]