Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

Rhodes: a gateway in the old walls of the city. Photograph, 1931.

Men sitting or lying on the hillside outside the walls of a city, playing cards. Engraving after P. van Laer (?).

Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the town seen through a gap in the city walls. Colour lithograph by R. Carrick after G.D. Beresford, 1855.

Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: a pitched battle between the imperial army (left) and the revolutionary army (right), outside the walls of a fortified city. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a ward for male patients with case-notes clipped to wall above beds. Photograph, ca. 1885/1898.

Beijing, China: large building on the city wall: north and east corner: panoramic view: section two. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Beijing, China: Chinese army guns on the city wall, after capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

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Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.

King Charles I on horseback outside the city walls of Hull: the Parliamentarians inside, led by Sir John Hotham, refuse to surrender the city. Engraving by N. Tardieu after C. Parrocel.

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Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.

Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.

Rhodes: a gateway in the old walls of the city. Photograph, 1931.

King Charles I on horseback outside the city walls of Hull: the Parliamentarians inside, led by Sir John Hotham, refuse to surrender the city. Engraving by N. Tardieu after C. Parrocel.

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Air of threat

Two health centres, two ideologies

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Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.

Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.

Rhodes: a gateway in the old walls of the city. Photograph, 1931.

King Charles I on horseback outside the city walls of Hull: the Parliamentarians inside, led by Sir John Hotham, refuse to surrender the city. Engraving by N. Tardieu after C. Parrocel.