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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

  • Interview

Refugee health on a pound a day

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

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  • St Christopher's Church, the Bank of England, and St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, with a woman walking through. Engraving by J. Jackson after J. W. Archer.
  • The Church of England educational institution, Bolton. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1853, after R.H. Potter.
  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation. Made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres / diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island, and of the northren seas and lands situate that way; as also the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno 1588. The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east ... By Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
  • Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "At the best alcohol is an expensive luxury; at the worst it is a terrible poison; in between it is a dangerous drug." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
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