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Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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  • AIDS and the workplace : a critical one-day conference : 26th March 1987 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, London / presented by BNA International Inc., London, a subsidary of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
  • AIDS and the workplace : a critical one-day conference : 26th March 1987 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, London / presented by BNA International Inc., London, a subsidary of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
  • AIDS and the workplace : a critical one-day conference : 26th March 1987 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, London / presented by BNA International Inc., London, a subsidary of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Four British prisoners of war, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Four British prisoners of war, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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