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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Pain, politics and the power of photography

Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • A mother protecting her baby, representing an appeal for starving children. Photolithograph after K. Kollwitz.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].
  • Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
  • End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • The scattering of the ashes of John Wycliffe's bones after his body had been exhumed and his bones burnt 41 years after his death. Etching.
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