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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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Healing through ink

Taking an approach learned from his OCD treatment, Josh Weeks faced his fear of getting tattoos, and embraced inking as part of the healing process.

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The big freeze

In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.

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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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  • Harbour view of Bristol wells and St. Vincent's rock. Line engraving, 17--.
  • Madeira: the harbour. 1896.
  • Madeira: the harbour. 1896.
  • Qiongzhou (Haikou) Harbour, Hainan Island, China: a fort. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Qiongzhou (Haikou) Harbour, Hainan Island, China: a fort. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Harbour view of St. Vincent's rock taken from the hot wells, Bristol. Line engraving, 1776.
  • Civil engineering: a moveable derrick at Ramsgate Harbour, Kent, seen in plan. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Civil engineering: a moveable crane at Ramsgate Harbour, Kent, seen in side elevation. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: the harbour. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Pill harbour (Som) on backwater of Bristol Avon.
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