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Surviving sex work on the streets

In care at four, on the streets at nine, Charmaine has had a traumatic journey to reach life as it is now: no drugs, no sex work, looking after her mum, and enjoying her grandchildren. Here she writes honestly about her past.

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A virtual view of history

Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.

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Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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Rebuilding my identity after a brain injury

Chris Miller talks about how a brain injury forced him to reassess his place in the world – physically, personally and socially.

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  • A crowded street in London. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
  • Guillaume de Limoges, a lame street singer. Etching by G. Audran.
  • A sailor on the street, play-fighting with a boy. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • A sailor on the street, play-fighting with a boy. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 54A, Wigmore Street, London ... / Henry S. Wellcome, Director, L.W.G. Malcolm ... Conservator.
  • A drunken man begs in the street with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Street traders in a market square. Oil painting by G.S. (?).
  • Street traders in a market square. Oil painting by G.S. (?).
  • Constantinople: a street seller of confectionery with honey. Engraving by G. Scotin, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • Builders on a wooden scaffold let a bucket and some bricks fall down into the street. Colour lithograph after G. Kurt, 192-.
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Suffragette Surgeons of Endell Street

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