Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Belonging and why we long for it
Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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The Bishop of Oxford and Prof. Ruskin on vivisection.
Mackarness, John Fielder, 1820-1889.Date: [1884]- Books
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The nine circles, or, The torture of the innocent : being records of vivisection, English and foreign / compiled by G.M. Rhodes.
Date: 1893- Books
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"The anti-vivisection question."
Date: [1884-1896]- Books
The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe.
Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.Date: 1889- Books
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The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe.
Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.Date: 1889