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Free Thinking Being Human: What the Archives Reveal Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.

Matthew Sweet visits little known locations in London to meet researchers drawing on archives of the past to cast new light on the present.

  • Matthew Sweet with Vicky Iglikowski and Rowena Hillel.
  • Inside the Disorderly House in Fitzroy Square, London 1927
  • Keeping a disorderly house, Fitzroy Square, London 1927 - 1
  • Keeping a disorderly house, Fitzroy Square, London 1927 - 2
  • Interior of The Caravan Club, Endell Street, London 1934
  • Statement of PC Desmond Stromqvist
  • Statement of Detective Edmund Daws
  • The memorial gates at Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark
  • Close to the site of the Shakespeare Hut in Bloomsbury
  • Matthew Sweet and Peter Guilllery in Spitalfields

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  • Free Thinking—Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

    Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetary and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

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Galleries

  • Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz—Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

  • Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.—Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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