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Silent threat

As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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  • East London, South Africa: part of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • East London, South Africa: a jetty and buildings near the mouth of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Somerset East, South Africa: a street. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Metro mental health service : for lesbian, gay and bisexual people across South East London / Metro.
  • Metro mental health service : for lesbian, gay and bisexual people across South East London / Metro.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: Mrs James Currey, the wife of the Manager of the London and South African Exploration Company. 1896.
  • The Cruciform Building, University College Hospital, London: perspective from the south-east. Colour lithograph. 190-.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
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