Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with many small houses either side and ships in the foreground. Engraving.
Reference: 26974i- Pictures
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Plan of the glass houses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park. Drawing by Miss Hagan, 1920.
Hagan.Date: 1920Reference: 574934i- Pictures
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses to either side. Engraving, 174-.
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Purple secret : genes, "madness" and the Royal houses of Europe / John C.G. Röhl, Martin Warren and David Hunt.
Röhl, John C. G.Date: 1998- Pictures
Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
Date: 18 June 1745Reference: 26927i