Stories
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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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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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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
![New Infirmary, Leeds, Yorkshire: bird's-eye view. Coloured lithograph after G.G. Scott [1864].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0012812/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Early Victorian England , 1830-1865.
Date: [1934]- Books
Sanitary reform in Victorian Britain / general editor, Michelle Allen-Emerson.
Date: 2012-2013- Books
ARCHITECTURE OF STEAM: WATERWORKS AND THE VICTORIAN SANITARY CRISIS.
DOUET, JAMESDate: 2023- Books
Nature's museums : Victorian science and the architecture of display / Carla Yanni.
Yanni, Carla.Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
Contagion, isolation, and biopolitics in Victorian London / Matthew L. Newsom Kerr.
Newsom Kerr, Matthew L., 1974-Date: [2018]