Stories
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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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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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A catalogue of one hundred proofs from gems, engraved in England, by E. Burch, R. A. engraver to his majesty, for medals and gems; and to his royal highness the duke of york. dedicated by permission to his majesty.
Burch, Edward, R.A.Date: 1795- Videos
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Towards a better life. Community health.
Date: 1986- Books
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The kentish traveller's companion: in a descriptive view of the towns, villages, remarkable buildings, and antiquities, situated on or near the road from London to Margate, Dover, and Canterbury. Illustrated with a correct map of the road, On a Scale of One Inch to a Mile; and a table of distances in measured miles, from London, and between the principal towns.
Fisher, T. (Thomas), -1786.Date: 1794- Books
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The kentish traveller's companion: in a descriptive view of the towns, remarkable buildings, and antiquities, situated on or near the road from London to Margate, Dover, and Canterbury. Illustrated with a correct map of the road, On a Scale of One Inch to a Mile; and a table of distances in measured miles, From London, and between the principal Towns.
Fisher, T. (Thomas), -1786.Date: 1794- Books
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Non-Residence inexcusable; or, the monitor admonished: in a letter to Dr. Free, on the occassion of his elaborate harangue, delivered to the London clergy, at their annual festival, held on the 15th of May last, at Sion College. By the Reverend Absalom Hurley, A. B. Late of Baliol College, Oxford, and now Curate of Kentish Town, Middlesex. Beware of Non-Residents.
Hurley, Absalom, 1725 or 1726-Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]