Stories
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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The Thames river, London: a cross-section of the first tunnel under the river, shipping in the river, and Rotherhithe beyond. Engraving by Silvester & Co., ca. 1830.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 36473i- Books
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Observations on the intended tunnel beneath the River Thames; shewing the many defects in the present state of that Projection. By Charles Clarke, F.S.A.
Clarke, Charles, -1840.Date: 1799- Pictures
Pleasure seekers visiting the unfinished Thames Tunnel are drenched by the ingress of water. Aquatint by R. Cruikshank, 1830.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: [1830]Reference: 2489352i- Books
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Reports, with plans, sections, &c. of the proposed dry tunnel, or passage, from Gravesend, in Kent, to Tilbury, in Essex; demonstrating its practicability, and Great Importance to the Two Counties, and to the Nation at Large: also on a Canal from near Gravesend to Stroud. Some Miscellaneous and Practical Observations. By R. Dodd, Engineer. Illustrated with Plates.
Dodd, Ralph, 1756-1822.Date: 1798- Pictures
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A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer. Wood engraving after W. Haywood, 1854.
Haywood, William, 1821-1894.Date: 1874Reference: 38495i