In this page from ‘Zine-maker: a zine about zining’, creator Meg-John Barker confirms that zines “can be anything – any size, shape, quality, format”. Many zines are a size and shape that is easy to ...

[70-74 missing] 75) Lt-Col F E C Lewis, Working policy of 'A' (ADV) Detachment, Re-allocation Centre (All Arms) CMF, 1944 76) Minutes of the 29th metting of command psychiatrists held on Friday 26th ...

M yalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

What do you know about the kola nut? This bitter-tasting fruit has been important in West African culture and trade since at least the 11th century. Consumed as a stimulant due to its high caffeine ...

Early modern hospitals in Europe predominantly served people from poorer communities, as wealthy people could afford to be nursed at home. Manuscript and woodcut illustrations from the 16th century ...

F or a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain. This lump of flesh, roughly the size of two clenched fists and weighing about 1.5 kg, not only stored a lifetime ...

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 ...

W hen terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, many people were cut off from medical help. As a result, a local nurse in Buffalo issued a set of instructions on social ...

In the 1900s, alcohol-addicted East Enders were sent to one of England’s first rehab centres, on Osea Island in the Blackwater estuary, where manual work and abstinence was hoped to effect a cure.

Christians believed in the power of relics to offer spiritual and physical aid. Because Jesus was believed to have bodily ascended into heaven, he left few relics on Earth that could be venerated. The ...

The British Migraine Association ran a series of migraine art competitions in the 1980s with the intention to share people’s varied experiences of migraine. In the seven years that the competition ran ...

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 ...