Stories
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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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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
- Books
Drainage manual / [Walter Clifford Tyndale].
Tyndale, Walter Clifford.Date: 1935- Archives and manuscripts
"Drainage and Sewerage"
Date: 1934-1955Reference: WF/WPRL/11/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Drainage and sanitation / Andrew Wilson.
Wilson, Andrew.Date: 2000- Books
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Drainage and sewerage.
Metropolitan Working Classes' Association for Improving the Public HealthDate: 1847- Books
Drainage of buildings / by Henry G. Warren.
Warren, Henry G.Date: 1938