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Can our minds be taken hostage?

It’s not unusual for captives to end up feeling strong bonds with their captors. But is it a matter of submission or survival?

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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.

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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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The big freeze

In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.

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  • Georg Sticker and an unknown companion, in front of a war memorial (?). Photograph.
  • A war memorial in the form of a radiant Celtic cross. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • A war memorial in the form of a Celtic cross on a stepped base. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • Above, diagonals; below, a war memorial in the form of a Celtic cross. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1976.
  • Bunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts: a war memorial, erected in 1872; the Bunker Hill monument is in the background. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Bunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts: a war memorial, erected in 1872; the Bunker Hill monument is in the background. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A statue of Germania displaying prominent breasts on a war memorial; prim ladies avert their faces in horror. Drawing, ca. 1923.
  • Boer War: soldiers erecting a marble memorial to men who died in the attack on Pieter's Hill. Halftone, 1900, after G. Soper after R. K. Hodgson.
  • Boer War: a cairn to the memory of Colonel Dick Cunyngham, V. C., at Ladysmith. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by J. Wallace Bradley.
  • Bunker Hill monument, Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph, ca. 1880.
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