Join an audio described tour of the exhibitions: ‘ Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions ’ and ‘ Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of ...

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of the Gambia. Gambia. Medical Department ...

History is dominated by A-list deaths: queens beheaded, archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones, and which of the old ...

A map (p106-107) taken from a report by Dr. John Snow: p. [97]-120 of the "Report on the cholera outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854", presented to the vestry ...

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Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

To date, little has been revealed about what happened when LGBTQI people – especially women – encountered the mental health system 50 years ago. But new research is unearthing hidden, and often ...

When A-level grades were announced in August 2020, it was clear that the algorithm designed to combat grade inflation had unfairly disadvantaged students who went to state schools in comparison with ...

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to the 18th-century doctors who advised their patients to take the ‘sea cure’. How did the so-called ‘sea cure’ supplant the taking of ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...