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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

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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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  • A treatise, or reflections drawn from practice on gun-shot wounds ... / by Henry Francis Le Dran ... ; translated from the French original.
  • A treatise, or reflections drawn from practice on gun-shot wounds ... / by Henry Francis Le Dran ... ; translated from the French original.
  • The history of Jamaica. Or, General survey of the antient and modern state of the island: with reflections on its situation settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws, and government ... / illustrated with copper plates ... [Anon].
  • The history of Jamaica. Or, General survey of the antient and modern state of the island: with reflections on its situation settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws, and government ... / illustrated with copper plates ... [Anon].
  • The history of Jamaica. Or, General survey of the antient and modern state of the island: with reflections on its situation settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws, and government ... / illustrated with copper plates ... [Anon].
  • The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. To which is added a ... supplement of riding ... With an alphabetical catalogue of allthe physical simples in English, French and Latin / By Sir William Hope ... Made English from the eighth editioin of the original.
  • The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. To which is added a ... supplement of riding ... With an alphabetical catalogue of allthe physical simples in English, French and Latin / By Sir William Hope ... Made English from the eighth editioin of the original.
  • The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. To which is added a ... supplement of riding ... With an alphabetical catalogue of allthe physical simples in English, French and Latin / By Sir William Hope ... Made English from the eighth editioin of the original.
  • A family sees Death's reflection in a mirror. Etching.
  • Picture of building, Kabul, in snow with reflection in water.
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Beyond the Visual

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
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D/deaf and Disabled Artists on Making Work Now

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Reaching Out

Online | In our building
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Part of Feeling Our Way

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