Join an in-conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient ...

Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...

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Signs of the times: or the overthrow of the papal tyranny in France, the prelude of destruction to popery and despotism, but of peace to mankind. By J. Bicheno (Online) ...

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In the early 20th century, a new form of treatment for tuburculosis emerged in Europe and North America. Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a woman discloses that she’s autistic, the reaction is often, “But you don’t look autistic,” or even a straight denial, “No you’re not.” This insightful and moving series of portraits and ...

The plant lore around the mandrake goes back to ancient times. Kate Quarry and Lalita Kaplish root around for what has made this unremarkable-looking plant so magical.

The cinchona tree, the source of quinine, provided the best treatment for malaria until the 1940s. But this “miraculous cure” from the forests of the Andes grew in a place where the deadliest form of ...