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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer. Wood engraving after W. Haywood, 1854.
Haywood, William, 1821-1894.Date: 1874Reference: 38495i
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Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
Sheringham, John, Lieutenant.Date: Augt 28 1821Reference: 662347i- Pictures
Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1885?])Reference: 38989i- Ephemera
Pond's Extract : inflammations, hemorrhages ; established forty years / Pond's Extract Co.
Pond's Extract Company.Date: [1889?]- Pictures
A London dustman is forced by noise abatement legislation to change his trade: he becomes a vendor of cat's meat. Coloured lithograph, 1839.
Date: [1839?]Reference: 2491042i