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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy

Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?

  • Article

When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia

Discover why a rare neurological condition meant an enthusiastic club-night dancer struggled with formal dance classes. And how persisting with those classes paid off.

  • Book extract

“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 wheelchair in the world

Five years ago, Jan Grue, author of ‘I Live a Life Like Yours’, became a father. A wheelchair user since age eight, Grue explores how parenthood helped him reimagine his relationship with his wheelchair.

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  • Two sketches showing examples of houses, floor plans
  • Elevation and ground floor plans of villas at Calverley Park.
  • Parochial Schools, Isleworth, Middlesex: with floor plans and text. Wood engraving.
  • Medicinsk-Historiske Museum, Kbenhavans Universities. Plans of the Titkens Gaard. First floor
  • Medicinsk-Historiske Museum, Kbenhavans Universities. Plans of the Titkens Gaard. Ground floor (Stueplan).
  • The lazaretto at Foce: facade and floor plans. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1824.
  • Children's Infirmary, Liverpool, Merseyside: floor plans. Photolithograph by Sprague & Co. after Haich & Thompson.
  • School of Industry for the Indigent Blind, Liverpool, Merseyside: with floor plans. Line engraving by H. Mutlow.
  • General Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate, Kent: with floor plans and key. Line engraving by Darton & Harvey.
  • Brighton Dispensary: perspective and two floor plans. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1850, after H. Williams.
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