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The intermediate life of spirits

Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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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 parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil attempt to saw an oak beam that unites England and Ireland. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • A group of men embroiled in a fight in the street while two men are tied up with rope and suspended from a beam across the street. Etching by A. Ashley.
  • An optical experiment, by which a man and an angel demonstrate that the strength of a beam of light is not proportionate to the distance which it has travelled. Engraving by T. Galle, 1613, after P.P. Rubens.
  • Chinese opium scales: the violin shaped cases are typical and the ivory beams are not uncommon;
  • An abattoir: animals are being killed and the carcasses hung up from beams. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
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