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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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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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How to cure the eco-anxious

Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?

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  • Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with starving animals, and farm buildings in the background. Stipple engraving.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with animals and farm buildings in background. Stipple engraving by R. Page.
  • Chickens standing on hay while ducks drink from a pool in a farm building. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A.G. Decamps.
  • Enoch and his family praying before taking a frugal meal outside a farm building while a woman gives alms to poor and lame people who approach the farm. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Sheep lying on straw in a barn. Lithograph with gouache.
  • Two pigs lying in straw in an outdoor pen. Etching with aquatint and grey wash after G. Morland(?).
  • An outdoor pen of five pigs with the interior of a farm shed behind. Etching by R. Hills, ca 1815.
  • Three trees by the road to a farm, with wooden hut and haystack. Pencil drawing.
  • Cows waiting in a relaxed group in a farmyard. Lithograph after T. S. Cooper, 1831.
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