Stories
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Sharing Nature: Parks for people
Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
Catalogue
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The Poor and the city : the English poor law in its urban context, 1834-1914 / edited by Michael E. Rose.
Date: 1985- Pictures
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A man and woman carrying barrels of water on their heads: Conference on water sanitation for the urban poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, 2006.
Date: 2006Reference: 756958i- Books
Medicine, charity and mutual aid : the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 / edited by Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely.
Date: 2007- Books
Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief : the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567-1720 / Jonathan I. Israel.
Israel, Jonathan I.Date: 1997- Books
Images of the outcast : the urban poor in the cries of London / Sean Shesgreen.
Shesgreen, Sean, 1939-Date: 2002