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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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Permission to recover

When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.

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How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

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  • St Marylebone Workhouse, watercolour, 1898
  • Lancet "commission for investigating...workhouse infirmaries"
  • Regulations for the workhouse at Dymock, Gloucs.
  • People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900
  • Authorization of payment of medical bills; Dymock workhouse.
  • Nat. Ass. of Workhouse Masters and Matrons, handbook
  • Bird's eye view of the Birmingham workhouse infirmary with a key. Photolithograph by J. Akerman.
  • The London Workhouse: view of the street facade. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The old men's ward in a Workhouse. This print is to illustrate a story but could have been drawn from life.
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