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How slums make people sick
| Emily Sargent
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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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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Two health centres, two ideologies
| Emily Sargent
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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The poor child’s nurse
| Briony Hudson
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
| Guy StaggJess Nash
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.