Stories
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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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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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
Catalogue
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Housing in town and country : being a report of a conference of the Garden City Association, held in the Grand Hall, Criterion Restaurant, London, on March 16th, 1906 / papers and addresses by the Right Hon. Lord Carrington, Lord Justice Fletcher-Moulton ... and others ; with an introduction by Thomas Adams.
Garden City Association (London, England)Date: [1906]- Books
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On psycho-analysis : being the substance of two lectures delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, London / by David Forsyth.
Forsyth, David, 1877-1941.Date: 1913- Books
Harry Leach MRCP (1836-1879) : control of scurvy in the British Mercantile Marine, and first Port Medical Officer for the City of London / G.C. Cook.
Cook, G. C. (Gordon Charles)Date: 2000- Books
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Structure and development of the brain : a lecture delivered in the City Hall, Glasgow, under the auspices of the Glasgow Science Lectures Association / by Allen Thomson.
Thomson, Allen, 1809-1884.Date: 1879- Books
Chemotherapy of psychiatric disorders / Peter Dally ; with an introduction by William Sargant.
Dally, Peter (Peter John)Date: [1967], ©1967