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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.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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Sharing breastmilk with parents

Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.

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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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  • Water supply. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Water supply. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Water supply: carrying wate in an earthenware pot
  • Water supply apparatus at a reservoir, Africa (?). Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Two arrangements of water supply.
  • Trchoma risk: limited water supply
  • Incinerator-latrine (field service.) : with hot water supply.
  • Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green, water supply 1863
  • A model of an underground water supply system in Munich, shown in cross-section. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • Engineering: a steam-engine, showing the water-supply and condensing chamber. Coloured lithograph by Day and son, 1851.
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