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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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Little feet on Pett Level Beach

Poet and author Penny Pepper has vivid memories of childhood beach trips when her father was still alive, enthusiastically encouraging her curiosity and love of nature.

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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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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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  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • National egg collection for our wounded soldiers and sailors : offices: 154, Fleet Street, London.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
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