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D.O. Hill, St Rollox Chemical, Published before Jan 1, 1925. Public domain in the United States, 30 September, 2006

The origins of the environmental movement lay in the response to increasing levels of smoke pollution in the atmosphere during the Industrial…

Tags: Alkali, Environment, Health, Legislation, Pollution, UK

Chris McAndrew, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Athlete and Charity Patron, UK Parliament, Mar-18

From Wikipedia: Tanni Grey-Thompson is a Welsh politician, television presenter and former wheelchair racer. Grey-Thompson was born with spina bifida…

Tags: Athletes, Charity, Disabled, Parliament, UK, United Kingdom, Women

Guttenberg, Carl, 1743-1790, engraver, The Tea-tax-tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution, 1778, Library of Congress, 1778

A satire expressing a Continental European view of the American Revolution, showing Father Time using a magic lantern to project the image of a teapot…

Tags: American Revolution, Art, British, Europe, Satire, Teapot, UK

Library of Congress, YWCA Building for Health: Bureau of Social Education, Library of Congress, 1918

Poster showing a woman, full-length, seated, holding a baby, blue triangle with caduceus in the background. The YWCA (Young Women's Christian…

Tags: Anti-Racism, Domestic Violence, Nonprofits, UK, Women, Women's Growth, Young Women's Christian Association, YWCA

Smithsonian Institution, Andrew Carnegie, Smithsonian Institution, 1906

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was…

Tags: Andrew Carnegie, Birmingham, Philanthropy, Public Libraries, Steel, Steel Industry, UK