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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
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Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.Date: [1683]Reference: 45428i- Digital Images
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Sugar attack
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Natal, South Africa: workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888.Date: 1888Reference: 533198iPart of: Harris, Robert, fl. 1881/1888.- Pictures
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Free trade represented as a woman: the left half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed and starving British workers; the right half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 21 November 1885Reference: 565092i- Pictures
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West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 July 1808]Reference: 38477i