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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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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.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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  • Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with many small houses either side and ships in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Plan of the glass houses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park. Drawing by Miss Hagan, 1920.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses to either side. Engraving, 174-.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: ships and rowing boats in the foreground, many small houses either side. Coloured engraving by St. Torres, 1745, after T. Bonsot.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from down river, with ships and rowing boats in the right foreground, houses in the distance. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1751.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from down river, with ships and rowing boats in the right foreground, houses in the distance. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1751.
  • A general plan of the layout of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with a scale and a key to wash houses and drying grounds. Coloured lithograph, after 1843, after P. C. Hardwick.
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