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Many of the images we have from the late Victorian and early Edwardian period of Hornsey Borough come from the lens of commercial photographer Alfred Braddock.…

Share Coming down with an infectious disease in early 1900s London would have been a pretty unsettling experience. Not only were effective treatments hard to come by, but the municipality had the legal right to enter your home and disinfect it. City workers could seize your belongings and take them away for steam cleaning, all in the name of public health. Yet these precautions were not draconian or even heartless: If this process rendered you homeless, you would be offered overnight accommodat...

"We have plenty of women like that who are heroic and unproblematic. But having those outlier women who make the huge breakthroughs doesnt tell you much about ordinary life, and we wanted to give snapshots that shed light on challenges faced in the past." Some of the more famous subjects include music hall singer Marie Lloyd and 18 th century businesswoman Eleanor Coade, who manufactured an artificial stone used on Buckingham Palace and the Brighton Pavilion, who was formerly a linen draper in...