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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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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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  • Locksmiths working in their workshop: keys, bolts and padlocks are hanging from a line. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • A padlock attached to a chain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A padlock attached to a chain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • Chastity belt, complete with waistbelt and padlock. Covered with velvet and mounted on a modern lining.
  • A shaven-headed woman attached at the neck to a chain with a padlock. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A shaven-headed woman attached at the neck to a chain with a padlock. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving, 1749, after J. Hoskins.
  • A couple lie in bed, the woman has her hands and feet padlocked into stocks at each end of the bed, and her husband has a whip. Coloured aquatint. after J.F.
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