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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

  • Photo story

Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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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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  • Wellcome excavation in Sudan: caravan
  • 'Our caravan on the march'
  • Birth control clinic in caravan, with nurse.
  • Cyprus, a camel caravan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus, a camel caravan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Birth control clinic in caravan, est. by Marie Stopes.
  • Cyprus, a camel caravan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.
  • Cyprus, a camel caravan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.
  • A Chinese caravan arrives at an encampment of nobles and sages. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Two men are driving four horses past a milestone to pull a caravan carrying a passenger. Engraving by E. Hacker after A.D. Cooper.
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