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Titans in the landscape

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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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Notes upon arrival

In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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  • The racehorse Sweet William in a landscape. Stipple print by G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs.
  • Four images of the Sacred Heart; left: the Sacred Heart on an altar; middle top: the Sacred Heart; middle bottom the Sacred Heart; right: the Sacred Heart flourishing in a landscape. Left, middle top and right: watercolour; middle bottom: collage and process print.
  • An Italian landscape in which a sick person is being carried to a hospital. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.
  • A cow and two sheep in a field. Etching by J. Janson the elder, 17--.
  • Cows grazing and resting in a field. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.
  • Cows standing and lying in a field. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.
  • A cow at rest lying in a field. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.
  • A cow bellowing in a field by a lake. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.
  • A cow gazing out across a field. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.
  • Natal, South Africa: a wagon crossing the Umkomas River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
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