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Pots

You are clay and you were formed from the earth.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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A graveyard of plants for the people I love

Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.

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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions

Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.

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  • Women carrying water pots
  • Pots, tubs, boxes, baskets and bundles. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1804.
  • Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
  • Two Roman (?) pots excavated at Newgate Street
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • Suggested curbing, pedestals, pots & steps across top of main walk.
  • A potter making clay pots on a wheel. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A man firing pots in a wood smoked oven. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Shallow well, with zeers (large clay water pots) in the background, Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph, 1903/1913.
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