Stories
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Victorian Turkish baths / Malcolm Shifrin.
Shifrin, MalcolmDate: 2015- Pictures
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Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 15654i- Pictures
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Lansdowne college and surrounding grounds, Bath. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after J. Wilson.
Hodgkin, W. E., active 1853-1879.Date: 1858Reference: 15505i- Pictures
Brill's baths from East Street, Brighton. Lithograph by J. Drayton Wyatt after G.G. Scott.
Wyatt, J. Drayton, active 1854-1878.Reference: 15669i- Pictures
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Buxton, Derbyshire: the baths, with scale key. Wood engraving by B. Sly after H. Currey.
Date: 1853Reference: 15754i