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Graveyards as green getaways

Stressed city dwellers have been visiting cemeteries in greater numbers since the start of the pandemic. Discover how, despite the constant reminders of death, graveyards bring visitors a sense of renewal.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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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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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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  • Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, Wood Green, London. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley after J. Gascoine and H.C. Maguire, 1865.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • The Philological School, St Marylebone, London: seen from the New Road. Wood engraving by W. T. Green after [C. A. H.], 1857.
  • The balloon "Royal Victoria" being launched at night by Charles Green at Vauxhall Gardens, London, watched by crowds of people. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1878.
  • [Leaflet (1880?) advertising appearances by The Lilliputian Monarchs: the Australian General Tom Thumb and Commodore Knott at the Horns Assembly Rooms (Kennington, London, England). Printed on pale green paper].
  • Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London.
  • Three actors in drag, posing in theatrical costumes.
  • Three actors in drag, posing in theatrical costumes.
  • Sanitary ramblings. Being sketches and illustrations of Bethnal Green. A type of the condition of the Metropolis and other large towns / [Hector Gavin].
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