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 ...
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.
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 ...
Over 1.1 million items exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. Thousands of digitised materials are readily available online for you to explore and download under a range of free ...
Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. This permanent gallery explores trust, identity and health in a changing world. Being ...
The text is by Bourneville and the photographs are by P. Regnard. The plates in v. 1 are mounted photographs (albumen prints) with letterpress captions; the plates in v. 2-3 are collotypes with ...
You can use this work for any purpose, as long as it is not primarily intended for or directed to commercial advantage or monetary compensation. You should also provide attribution to the original ...
This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries. "The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of ...
The costume of Great Britain / Designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.
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 ...
We think of assistive technology as something modern, and that people with mobility issues in the past were limited to their locality or confined within their homes. But there are clues in the ...
A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...
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