The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse

Volodja1984/Shutterstock Nine-year-old Annie McGuire and seven-year-old Elizabeth Martin were among thousands of women and girls admitted to the Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females, one of a network of Lock hospitals built across Britain and its colonies in the 19th century, between 1846 and 1947. Established to diagnose and treatContinue Reading

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HIV stigma is now more dangerous than the virus – my research shows how to address this

John B Hewitt/Shutterstock Speaking at the 16th International Aids Conference in 2006, the then UNAids executive director, Peter Piot, remarked: “Since the beginning of the epidemic, stigma, discrimination and gender inequality have been identified as major causes of personal suffering, and as major obstacles to effective responses to HIV.” Now,Continue Reading

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My grandfather was ‘Mr Health and Safety’. His life’s quest to make work safer has been ridiculed – but the rise of the gig economy shows it’s no joke

Harold Walker was a Labour MP for 33 years and a key architect of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974). David Fowler/Shutterstock “I hope we have persuaded [the minister] of the need to do more, not merely to reduce industrial noise but to help people who have sufferedContinue Reading

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