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Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

<p>Letters sent from Charles Darwin to his cousin Francis Galton. Dates from the time of the publication of Galton's Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa in 1853 up until Darwin's death ...

Anthony Acciavatti works at the intersection of landscape and the history of science and technology. He is the author of the award-winning 'Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River', ...

Photographs of No. 28 Motor Ambulance Convoy in India and in Afghanistan during the Afghan War of 1919 Date: 1916-1920 Reference: RAMC/1886 Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection ...

The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: an outline of the four-and-a-half years service of a unit of the Fifty-sixth Division at home and abroad (France) during the Great War Date: 1924 Reference: RAMC/1813 ...

Notes with a Prussian Sanitäts Detachment in the Loire Campaign, 1870, by Sandford Moore, Assistant Surgeon, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards ...

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F or too many years there has been a persistent untruth that autism is rare in girls and women. The use of classic autistic male characteristics for diagnostic parameters has meant that generations of ...

The architecture of purpose-built sanatoriums enabled doctors and nurses to monitor patients more closely – the transparent, open-air designs normalised a disciplinarian regime of surveillance, which ...

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 ...

LGBTQ+ communities were the hardest hit by the epidemic, but they were also among the first to raise awareness and actively campaign for safer health and sexual practices. Among the early campaigners ...