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Follow curator Ruth Garde's six-part story exploring our changing feelings about electricity: from wondrous lightning in the sky to vast pylons dominating the landscape.
Read the first chapter of this digital story
From the voice of Florence Nightingale to animated feet, from brain surgery to obesity, our digitised films and recordings cover a hundred years of health and medicine online.
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Discover the world of medieval medicine in these rare and beautiful objects, available to view and explore online.
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Explore the historical records of a selection of UK asylums, psychiatric institutions and personnel
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1901
A beautiful companion for the summer, this book on wild flowers includes many colour plates and illustrations.
13 June 2017
What is the value of art created in the asylum, and who has the right to decide how it’s used?...
8 June 2017
4 May 2017
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