Stories
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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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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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Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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A pigmy elephant with crooked legs having a plaster cast applied by the zoo superintendent, Dr. Vevers, prior to corrective treatment. Photograph, ca. 1925.
Date: 1925Reference: 578400i- Books
Menagerie : the history of exotic animals in England, 1100-1837 / Caroline Grigson.
Grigson, Caroline, 1935-Date: 2016- 3-D Objects
Ebola.
Jerram, LukeDate: 2014Reference: 3306450iPart of: Glass microbiology.- 3-D Objects
Ebola.
Jerram, LukeDate: 2014Reference: 3306450iPart of: Glass microbiology.- Videos
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Where there's life there's soap.
Date: [1933]