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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

  • Article

Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

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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.

  • Photo story

Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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  • William Stokes. Photograph after a print.
  • John William Turner. Photograph after a drawing or print.
  • C.H. Schulze. Photograph after a print or drawing.
  • Vincenz Priessnitz. Photograph by J. Springer after a print.
  • Three Mapuche women bearing drums. Photograph of a process print, ca. 1900.
  • Ferdinand Sauerbruch lecturing: two scenes. Process print after photographs by E. Salomon, 1930.
  • Boer War: volunteer ambulance at work. Process print after A. Kemp Tebby after a photograph.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • The arm of a woman suffering from dermatitis herpetiformis. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1905.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
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