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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
| Mary-Anne Boermans
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
| Florence WildbloodKathleen Arundell
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
| Jacqueline L ScottYvonne Maxwell
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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Life before assistive technology
| Alex LeeIan Treherne
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.