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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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A portrait of me with my mother

A series of portraits with stand-in mothers helped Camilla Greenwell to process her grief, and then to question whether our photograph albums are ever really honest.

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The female fight to reclaim our space in the mosque

Salma El-Wardany tells of the fight to reclaim spaces for women in the mosque and further afield.

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Succumbing to stimming in dance

As a child, Susanna Dye felt ashamed of their need to stim, but has found a way to incorporate these repetitive movements into their creative practice as a dancer and facilitator.

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  • Tents used by Hubert von Herkomer on a painting trip to Wales. Etching by H. von Herkomer, 1880.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital with medical staff and four tents. Collotype, 1904.
  • World War One: Rouen, France: a general hospital: view of hospital tents. Photograph, 1916.
  • Mosul, Iraq: a cholera camp: view of a few tents and horses. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Siberia: tents for shaman's performances. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • Hospital of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army, Philadelphia: with hospital tents outside. Photograph, 1876.
  • Jacob's Bridge, between the lakes of Tiberia, with the tents of the British Army pitched on the mountain side and the tents of the and the Aga of the Janisaries, c. October 1799, during the Defence of the Ottoman Empire against General Bonaparte
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: Egyptian men in a labour camp; camel and tents in the background. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The tabernacle erected in the wilderness, surrounded by an enclosure and miles of tents. Coloured etching by W. Dickes.
  • The Gold Coast, Queensland: a yellow fever isolation camp: rows of tents with palm trees to one side. Photograph 1870/1900.
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