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From cacao to chocolate

Discover how chocolate morphed from a prized, spiritually significant commodity to a quasi-medicine, and finally to the sweet treat we eat almost daily.

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The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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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 medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • Peter Williamson, kidnapped as a child and transported to the American plantations; became traveller and writer. Reproduction of an engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.
  • Jamaica: a sugar plantation. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821.
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