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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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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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Silent threat

As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.

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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 "Stuart" stove : (Colonel Stuart-Wortley's patent) : medal awarded at International Health Exhibition, London, 1884.
  • The "Stuart" stove : (Colonel Stuart-Wortley's patent) : medal awarded at International Health Exhibition, London, 1884.
  • Display of products by Burroughs Wellcome & Co., at the International Medical and Sanitary Exhibition, London, 1881.
  • Preliminary programme : 3rd International Congress of Dietetics... : 1961, London, England, July 10-14 / organized by the International Committee of Dieticians and the British Dietetic Association.
  • Preliminary programme : 3rd International Congress of Dietetics... : 1961, London, England, July 10-14 / organized by the International Committee of Dieticians and the British Dietetic Association.
  • Preliminary programme : 3rd International Congress of Dietetics... : 1961, London, England, July 10-14 / organized by the International Committee of Dieticians and the British Dietetic Association.
  • Preliminary programme : 3rd International Congress of Dietetics... : 1961, London, England, July 10-14 / organized by the International Committee of Dieticians and the British Dietetic Association.
  • International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1911: the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, exhibit, displaying laboratory specimens and charts. Photograph by Martin Herzfeld, 1911.
  • [Undated handbill (about 1874?) for Crecraft's Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall (London, England) featuring "Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd, the smallest people living, the king and queen of the Lilliputians"].
  • International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.
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