Stories
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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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Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder
Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.
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Words of hope and anger
Author and spoken word poet Penny Pepper remembers her childhood dreams, and speaks out against the barriers society uses to prevent disabled people from fulfilling their potential.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
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Political banishments: being some considerations thereon, and in what cases pronounc'd. I. The case of attainders stated. II. With an Enquiry into the Nature of Banishments among the Athenians and Romans; and wherein the Exostracism, or Banishment by Vote, practis'd by the Former, differs from our Parliamentary Sentence. III. Whether there be more mercy in exile, or confinement, for life. By a true Briton.
True Briton.Date: 1723- Books
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The characters of the several noblemen and gentlemen that have died in the defence of their respective princes, or the liberties of their country. Together with the character of those who have suffer'd for treason and rebellion, for the last 300 years. With An Account of their Behaviour and Speeches at their respective Executions. Being a proper Supplement to the State-Tryals. By Mr. Salmon.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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A compleat history of the trials of the rebel lords in Westminster-Hall; and the rebel officers and others concerned in the rebellion in the year 1745, at St. Margaret's-Hill, Southwark, and at Carlisle and York. With the lives, behaviour, and dying speeches of those executed pursuant to their sentences. By W. Wilkinson, gent.
Wilkinson, W.Date: [1746?]- Books
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The tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer, who was lately try'd and acquitted for printing and publishing a libel against the government. With the Pleadings and Arguments on both Sides.
Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.Date: 1738- Books
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The tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer, who was lately try'd and acquitted for printing and publishing a libel against the government. With the Pleadings and Arguments on both Sides.
Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.Date: 1738