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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • The Thames river, London: a cross-section of the first tunnel under the river, shipping in the river, and Rotherhithe beyond. Engraving by Silvester & Co., ca. 1830.
  • An underground tunnel with a truck on the track. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Workmen fitting metal casings to form an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Southwark, London: map of the borough with key. Etching, 1755.
  • A trial journey on the first part of the underground railway in London. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • A panorama of London, looking north from Lambeth. Wood engraving by R. Loudan, before 1870, after T. Sulman.
  • A map of London, with a scale and north point: from Greenwich to Hammersmith east-west, and from Highgate to Stockwell north-south. Wood engraving by J. Dower after himself, 1862.
  • Workmen fitting the metal casings for an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
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