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How can I stop fainting?

Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.

  • Interview

Meet the climate emergency

Find out what led Yinka Shonibare to create the compelling artwork ‘Refugee Astronaut’.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of A R Hopwood and Honor Beddard

The curators of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ reveal the stories behind the exhibits, and the intriguing truths the show confronts us with.

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Images

  • Thomas Smith. Lithographic [?] silhouette.
  • Sir Thomas Smith Clouston. Photograph.
  • View of the grave of Thomas Southwood Smith
  • Bas-relief on the grave of Thomas Southwood Smith.
  • Thomas Hawkesley. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith after himself.
  • Sir Thomas Smith Clouston. Photogravure after G. Fiddes Watt, 1909.
  • Thomas Coram. Line engraving by E. Smith after W. Hogarth.
  • Thomas Gill. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1700, after T. Murray.
  • Thomas Garnett. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1800, after J. R. Smith.
  • Portrait of Thomas Smith, a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
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