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The tower in fiction, film and life

The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.

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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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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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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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  • Pomander, silver, showing Tower of London.
  • Guy's Hospital, London, England: a tower block under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Tower of London, Royal Menagery: a Bactrian camel. Etching after W. Panormo.
  • The murder of Simon Sudbury at the Tower of London in 1381. Coloured lithograph.
  • Tower of London, Royal Menagery: a pair of tigers. Etching by W. Webb after H. Berthaud.
  • The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress.
  • Tower of London, Royal Menagery: a lion, a lioness and their cubs. Etching by Newton after W. Berthaud.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • M0007986: Savoy Hospital, London, from Clay: <i>The medieval hospitals of England</i>
  • M0007986: Savoy Hospital, London, from Clay: <i>The medieval hospitals of England</i>
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