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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
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- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
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Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments made and sold by Heath and Wing, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, London.
Heath and Wing (London, England)Date: 1765?]- Books
Injuries and diseases of the jaws / by Christopher Heath.
Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.Date: 1872- Books
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The construction and use of a new universial dial, as now made by Heath and Wing, mathematical and optical instrument makers, near Exeter Exchange in the Strand, London.
Heath and Wing (London, England)Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Injuries and diseases of the jaws / by Christopher Heath.
Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.Date: 1868- Pictures
King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Engraving by J. Heath after P. van Somer and T. Stothard, 1788.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: Jan.y 1st 1788Reference: 2047182i