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Chasing down a mystery illness

In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.

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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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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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Bringing Braille back to the modern world

For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.

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  • A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the facades of a row of doctors' houses. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley after W. G. Smith, 1863.
  • Taboga Island, Panama: a row of grass-roofed village houses; a woman holding a baby and a child stand in one doorway. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • India: A(?)ituni people standing in a row, with palm trees and a grass-roofed house behind them. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses to either side. Engraving, 174-.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: ships and rowing boats in the foreground, many small houses either side. Coloured engraving by St. Torres, 1745, after T. Bonsot.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from down river, with ships and rowing boats in the right foreground, houses in the distance. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1751.
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