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Finding consolation in social isolation

Feeling isolated and anxious during the lockdowns of the last year, Tanya Perdikou found solace in reconnecting to her past and reaching out to neighbours in the present.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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Life on the line

Former Samaritans helpline volunteer Katy Georgiou recalls the desperate voices she heard during her night shifts, and those whose isolation she helped to alleviate.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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  • Ships used as smallpox isolation hospitals.
  • The Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham: isolation ward. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • An isolation hospital, Nottingham: a nurse stands by beds on the verandah of a hospital ward. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • 'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the Hempsted isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
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