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Finding a cure for homesickness

While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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  • The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: occassion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Coelius, concerning the soups and sauces of the antients. With an extract of the greatest curiosities contain'd in that book. To which is added Horace's Art of poetry, in Latin / By the author of the Journey to London [i.e. W. King].
  • A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.
  • Travelling gypsies. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
  • Mary and Joseph ride to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Etching by or after J. Callot.
  • Wellcome products being loadind onto a train in South Africa
  • The maze of trees, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • Loss, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a coppersmith at work in his shop. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a coppersmith at work in his shop. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • The healing touch, emotional cancer journey, artwork
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