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The amateur silversmith

It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.

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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy

With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.

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  • Julian Cox of Taunton and a man sit smoking by the hearth; a toad is by the feet of the man. Woodcut.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A wife waits on a stormy night for the return of her husband, with two of the children standing by an open door and his slippers by the hearth. Mezzotint.
  • A family scene with the father sitting near the hearth smoking a pipe and the mother with a child on her lap and another standing with a toy cart. Etching and drypoint by Josef Israels.
  • Groups of people gathered around a fire in a room. Engraving.
  • A girl sits spinning by the fire, opposite her sits a woman with her head in her hands. Engraving by Erh. Pickel after B. Vautier.
  • An old woman sits spinning by candelelight as a boy and a cat warm themselves by the fire. Engraving by J. Parker after R. Corbould.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • A log fire with a guard in front, which a little boy touches with his rattle. Colour lithograph.
  • A log fire with a guard in front, which a little boy touches with his rattle. Colour lithograph.
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