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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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  • St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London: the interior with a lady and her daughter near the altar, a man half-hidden behind the pews to the left. Engraving.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • The Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London. Engraving by W. Wise after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1816.
  • Yarmouth Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England: interior. Line engraving by R. Sands, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
  • New College, Oxford: chapel. Aquatint.
  • Queen's College, Oxford: interior of chapel. Aquatint.
  • Merton College, Oxford: a marriage ceremony in the chapel. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after A.C. Pugin.
  • Abbott's Hospital, Guildford, Surrey: the chapel (above) and the hall (below). Etching by M.J. Starling, 1841, after J.R. Thompson.
  • Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge: interior towards the west end. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
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