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Chasing spring

Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.

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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions

Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.

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Water of life?

From ancient sources of spiritual sustenance to the modern spa, Ross MacFarlane traces a brief history of healing waters.

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The hell of hay fever

After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.

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  • Tunbridge Wells: the Chalybeate Springs.
  • The Greenbier. White Sulpur Springs. West Virginia
  • Tunbridge Wells: the Pantiles from the Chalybeate Springs
  • Hot Springs, Mtagata, Central Africa: H.M. Stanley observing the therapeutic powers of the hot springs. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • Car Dale Springs, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by Smyth after B.F.
  • Hveravellir hot springs, Iceland. Etching.
  • Artificial teeth with.springs. P. Fauchard, 1728.
  • Outline of Harrogate, showing sites of some medicinal springs
  • Hydraulics: a geyser, underground springs, and a steam-engine. Engraving, 1747.
  • Beppu, Japan: hot springs at Kamado Jigoku. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
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