Stories
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.
Guillod, T., active 1840.Date: 1840Reference: 20210i- Pictures
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Christ Church, Oxford: chaplains' buildings from the meadow. Line engraving by J.H. Le Keux, 1863, after himself.
Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896.Date: 1 November 1863Reference: 20474i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: "Indistinguishable" Church and other flats at Kings Cross and buildings and cars around Soho (March 1994).
Date: 22/03/1994-29/03/1994Reference: PP/AMI/B/524Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
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Viaggiana: or, detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.
Weston, Stephen, 1747-1830.Date: [1776?]- Books
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A critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments In, and about London and Westminster. To which is prefix'd. The Dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome, and St. Paul's Cathedral at London.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1734