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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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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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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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  • Horse and stretcher transport, World War I
  • World War I: doctor and nurse treating a wounded soldier
  • World War I: British and German war loans contrasted. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • World War I: shipwrecked sailors and soldiers reaching land. Lithograph by Frank Brangwyn.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
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