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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • South Wharf, Rotherhite where patients were received for embarkation to the Hospital Ships, 1901-02.
  • South Wharf, Rotherhithe where patients where received for embarkation to the Hospital Ships, 1901-02. Twenty years later.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Aquatint.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground. Watercolour.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships, rowing boats, and mudlarks [?], in the foreground. Engraving.
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