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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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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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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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  • Studies of children as found on holiday on a beach. Process print after Starr Wood.
  • A man posing on a beach in formal attire. Photographic postcard by Jerome Ltd., 192-.
  • A man with a cigarette posing on a promenade by the sea. Colour photographic postcard by Jerome Ltd., 192-.
  • A man in a long coat paddling in the sea. Colour photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A man with a cigarette posing on a promenade by the sea. Colour photographic postcard by Jerome Ltd., 192-.
  • A man posing on a beach in formal attire. Photographic postcard by Jerome Ltd., 192-.
  • A young woman is standing on a beach looking out to sea through a telescope which she is resting on the shoulder of a Catholic priest. Wood engraving after P. Thumann.
  • A man in a long coat paddling in the sea. Colour photographic postcard, 192-.
  • The Disney character Goofy as a "gay dog", i.e. a gay man promenading on the sea front. Colour process print, 195-.
  • A footman at a seaside establishment asks a man who is about to leave if he will take a barrel of sea-water with him on behalf of another resident. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.
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  • Seminar

Freak Shows, Seaside Resorts and 20th-century British Culture

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