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Homes for the hives of industry
| Emily Sargent
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The birth of the public museum
| Elissavet Ntoulia
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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London, city of lost hospitals
| Dr Tom BoltonSimon Norfolk
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
| Imani Jacqueline BrownFungai Marima
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.