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Surviving sex work on the streets

In care at four, on the streets at nine, Charmaine has had a traumatic journey to reach life as it is now: no drugs, no sex work, looking after her mum, and enjoying her grandchildren. Here she writes honestly about her past.

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Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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Walk, interrupted

By listing all the things that get in her way, Caroline Butterwick wants to create an embodied experience of disability and convince you that inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

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  • An overhead view of Paris streets with an AIDS message
  • Crowds of people are gathered in the streets around fishmonger stalls. Etching.
  • Execution of Bulgarians on makeshift gallows in the streets of Adrianople, Turkey. Wood engraving.
  • A tarred and feathered countryman is paraded past crowds in the streets. Wood engraving.
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • A vast crowd of people throngs the streets of a city. Etching by J. Nasmyth.
  • Coachmen forcibly encouraging people on the streets at Versailles to travel in their carriages. Aquatint, 1822.
  • Soldiers at Mainz suffering from typhus, lying in the streets. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A. Raffet.
  • A fire-engine drawn by horses races through the streets to attend to a fire. Wood engraving.
  • Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.
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Suffragette Surgeons of Endell Street

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