Stories
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On nature cures and taking the waters
When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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Notes upon arrival
In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.
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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.
Catalogue
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Of gardens. Four books / First written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinvs. And now made English by J[ohn] E[velyn the younger].
Rapin, René, 1621-1687.Date: 1673- Books
Just the tonic : a natural history of tonic water / Kim Walker & Mark Nesbitt.
Walker, Kim (Researcher)Date: 2019- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: birds, other water species and statues around Hyde park and Kensington gardens (April 1994).
Date: 31/04/1994Reference: PP/AMI/B/535Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- E-books
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Letters patent for raising the Thames water in York-Gardens, with act incorporating the proprietors of said water-works, and other acts respecting the York-buildings Company, and sales of their estates
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Audrey Amiss sketchbook: birds by the Serpentine, water fountains and animals and Seagulls at Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park (January 1994).
Date: 24/01/1994Reference: PP/AMI/B/513Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive