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Finding consolation in social isolation

Feeling isolated and anxious during the lockdowns of the last year, Tanya Perdikou found solace in reconnecting to her past and reaching out to neighbours in the present.

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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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Pum Dunbar’s living lessons

Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.

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Little feet on Pett Level Beach

Poet and author Penny Pepper has vivid memories of childhood beach trips when her father was still alive, enthusiastically encouraging her curiosity and love of nature.

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  • A treatise of melancholie. Containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the phisicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as have thereto adjoyned an afflicted conscience / [Timothie Bright].
  • De consolatione philosophiae / [Boethius].
  • Anotomia della peste: a consolatione principalmente della Città di Venetia, fatta in quattro lettre.
  • The Virgin Consoler of the Afflicted at Kevelaer. Coloured etching.
  • The Virgin Consoler of the Afflicted in S. Maria del Suffragio in Via Giulia at Rome. Engraving.
  • The Mother of Christ, Consoler of the Afflicted of Kevelaer near Luxembourg. Etching by I. Hunin, 1794.
  • A dying little girl is held by her mother in bed, while another child consoles the grieving father. Transfer lithograph.
  • A father, having banished his daughter to her room, now seeks to console her. Wood engraving by J. Swain after R. Barnes.
  • Heart transplantation: surgeons contemplate a heart; a skeleton (Death) consoles the dead donor; a nude woman comforts the living donor. Colour lithograph.
  • Heart transplantation: surgeons contemplate a heart; a skeleton (Death) consoles the dead donor; a nude woman comforts the living donor. Colour lithograph.
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