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How homesickness inspires art

Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

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Communities of cross-feeders

A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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  • Ahilyabai Holkar with two female attendants holding a diplomatic meeting between a nobleman and subject ruler. Chromolithograph.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Mao Changxi (1817–1882), Minister of Foreign Affairs. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Mao Changxi (1817–1882), Minister of Foreign Affairs. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Dong Xun (1810-1892), Minister of Foreign Affairs, late Qing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Dong Xun (1810-1892), Minister of Foreign Affairs, late Qing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A hind standing on a crag in the forest belling with a group of stags and deer resting on patch of grass below. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
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