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Inside 'The Vegetable Kingdom': From India to London
Una Maw's Vegetable Kingdom dolls: Blending Indian fabrics and British wit
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Mapping the legacy of slavery in London’s Docklands
Traces of the transatlantic slave trade continue to exist in the Docklands landscape
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The shadowy dock scenes of Gustave Doré
Romanticised illustrations that conjure up the sweat, clamour and clank of the 19th-century London riverside
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A View of the Wilderness, with the Alhambra, the Pagoda & the Mosque in the Royal Gardens at Kew (engraving)
Marlow, William
1763