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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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  • Mexico, topography.
  • Phrenology, nomenclature and topography
  • Chinese 15th century Daoist image of internal topography
  • Observations on the Neilgherries including an account of their topography, climate, soil, & productions, and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution / By R. Baikie ... Ed. by W.H. Smoult, esq.
  • Ancient topography of London; containing not only views of buildings which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published; but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / By John Thomas Smith.
  • Iron works in Shropshire, 18th c.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia.
  • Old map of the ward of Cheap, circa 1750.
  • Chemist and Druggist shop of N.J. Wooley, Piccadilly.
  • Ecclesiastical divisions, France 1905.
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