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  • Book extract

You, a thousand years ago

Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.

  • Article

A wheelchair in the world

Five years ago, Jan Grue, author of ‘I Live a Life Like Yours’, became a father. A wheelchair user since age eight, Grue explores how parenthood helped him reimagine his relationship with his wheelchair.

  • Article

Little feet on Pett Level Beach

Poet and author Penny Pepper has vivid memories of childhood beach trips when her father was still alive, enthusiastically encouraging her curiosity and love of nature.

  • Book extract

Why we need to decolonise healthcare

In this extract from ‘Divided’, Annabel Sowemimo describes the way her nana’s stroke and hospitalisation heightened her awareness of the need for us all to advocate for the health of others.

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  • London Bridge. Diagram of the water-wheels and pumps.
  • World War One: a stretcher with large wheels bearing a patient. Photograph, 1916.
  • Hydraulics: pumps and water-wheels. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie after himself, 1850.
  • Men are working at benches with a box with wheels on a chain and a large wheel. Engraving.
  • A floating Chinese temple, including an altar, musicians and prayer wheels. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • The fore wheels of a coach: two figures. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey Jnr.
  • A wagoner making wheels, axles and other parts for carriages and wagons. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Martyrdom of four male saints, their bodies bound to spiked wheels. Woodcut by Cr.P. (?).
  • Textiles: two spinning wheels, for wool (top) and silk (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A vehicle with two large and two small wheels and a man sitting between the two larger ones; there are two horses below him and people are travelling in a box situated between the two smaller wheels. Wood engraving.
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