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- Article
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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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
| Cal Flyn
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
| Iain Sinclair
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
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- Article
Yoga gets physical
| Lalita Kaplish
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The big freeze
| Charlotte SleighGergo Varga
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.