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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism

Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.

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Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism

Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • Two women in prayer before an open shrine. Engraving by W. Holl and F. Holl after J. Browne.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 24th Session Group portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, T.R. Beale Browne, C.W. Daniels, R.W. Burkitt, J. F. Fitzmaurice, D. Ross Kilpatrick, J. C. C. Ford, A. F. Forster, Q. B. de Freitas, C.A. Godson, F. Grenier, S. Gurney, G. Hamilton, Prof. Holst, Capt. F.H.G. Hutchinson, K. McMurtrie, Miss G. Mackinnon, W.F. Todd, C. Frimodt Moller, Miss C. Wilson, Miss A. Madsen, Capt. J.N. Walker, J. Phillip Ziervogel.
  • A great auk egg. Coloured lithograph by F. W. Frohawk, 1888.
  • A family contemplates a gravestone. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after W. Hamilton.
  • A man is standing to give a speech at a charity dinner. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne (Phiz).
  • Wilhelm Andreas Haase. Stipple engraving by F.W. Bollinger after F.A. Junge.
  • A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • A family of gypsies sit in their camp with a child they have stolen. Engraving by W. & F. Holl, 1840, after F.P. Stephanoff.
  • A boy, dressed as Saint John the Baptist for a procession in Venice. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after F.W.W. Topham, 1870.
  • A diseased lung. Coloured aquatint by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1827.
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