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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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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.

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Queer cafés and gay mylk

Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.

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Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

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  • View of entrance hall, Wellcome Building, with reconstructions of historic pharmacies along the south side.
  • Bengal Clipper : Cardamom Building, Shad Thames, Butler's Wharf, London SE1... : the Indian restaurant on London's historic spice wharf.
  • Bengal Clipper : Cardamom Building, Shad Thames, Butler's Wharf, London SE1... : the Indian restaurant on London's historic spice wharf.
  • Historical Society Building, New York City. Coloured lithograph by G. Hayward, 1862.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Egyptian Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c.1939].
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairs in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairwell in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, May 1932, before occupation. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].
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