Stories
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How to play on the District line between Stepney Green and Embankment
From the crossword to the smartphone, distractions for the commuter relieve the tedium of crowded, dull journeys. Game designer Holly Gramazio delves into the world of games for trains.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
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Section of the Holborn Viaduct, showing the subways (taken by permission from Mr. Haywood's Report)'
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Can you sink a Sub? : Subway, eat fresh / Doctor's Associates, Inc.
Doctor's Associates.Date: 2003- Pictures
A man sneezing in an underground train. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 22643i- Books
An historical account of sub-ways in the British metropolis, for the flow of pure water and gas into the houses of the inhabitants, without disturbing the pavements: including the projects in 1824 and 1825 / By John Williams, the patentee.
Williams, John, patentee of subways.Date: 1828
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A man smoking by mistake in a non-smoking carriage of an underground train in London. Colour lithograph after Fougasse, 194-.
Fougasse.Date: [1944]Reference: 689306i