Stories
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Marine environmental research
Date: [©1978]-- Books
Slow death by rubber duck : the secret danger of everyday things / Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie with Sarah Dopp.
Smith, Rick, 1968-Date: [2009], ©2009- Archives and manuscripts
Two annotated interleaved publications by Cornelius Benjamin Fox: Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A Handbook for the Medical Officer of Health (1878) and Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A vade-mecum for the Medical Officer of Health (1886)
Fox, Cornelius Benjamin (1839-1922), MD Edin, MRCS, LSA, FRCP (1880)Date: 1878-1886Reference: MSS.8561-8562- Books
Your wellbeing garden : how to make your garden good for you - science, design, practice / Alastair Griffiths, Matthew Keightley.
Griffiths, AlastairDate: 2020- Books
Death and survival in urban Britain : disease, pollution and environment, 1800-1950 / Bill Luckin.
Luckin, BillDate: 2020