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Great cemeteries of the world. Pt. 24, London - Kensal Green.
Date: 2002- Books
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Report of the National Institute of General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, on the present state of the medical reform question.
National Institute of General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery.Date: 1848- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 9
Date: May 1905 - Feb 1906Reference: WF/E/01/01/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Reprints on general subjects (mostly related to abortion)
Date: 1970-1975Reference: SA/ALR/D.40Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Reprints on general subjects (mostly related to abortion)
Date: 1971-1972Reference: SA/ALR/D.38Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
A history of disability in England : from the medieval period to the present day / Simon Jarrett.
Jarrett, SimonDate: 2023- Books
Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
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British Museum Library.
Date: 1912- Books
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Transactions of the National Association on Social Science : Conference on Temperance Legislation, London, 1886.
Date: 1886- Books
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An historical essay upon the government of the Church of England, from the earliest to the present times. Exhibiting the true causes of the separation from Rome, in the Reign of Henry Viii. And the Review - intended at the Revolution. With a vindication of the measures of Henry Viii. Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, from the calumnies of a popish writer, published in the First and Second Volumes of an History, entitled, The Church History of England, from the Year 1500, to the Year 1688, chiefly with Regard to Catholicks. Being A Compleat Account of the Divorce, Supremacy, Dissolution of Monasteries, and first Attempts for a Reformation under King Henry Viii. the unsettled State of the Resormation under Edward VI. the Interruption it met with from Queen Mary, with the last Hand put to it by Queen Elizabeth. And a preface, Containing a Summary of the false Facts and Principles advanced by the Catholic-Historian. By George Reynolds, L. L. D. Archdeacon of Lincoln.
Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, viz. Of the Church of Rome, --- England, --- Scotland, - Nonjurors, - Lutherans, - Presbyterians, Of the Independents, - Baptists in general, - Quakers, -- Antinomians, - Moravians, - Methodists in general. Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: With a general Account of the various Sectaries of less Note, since the first Establishment of Christianity. Including a general History of the Reformation, and so much of Civil and Ecclesiastical History as is connected with, or necessary to explain and illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Dictionary of the principal Religious Orders, Offices, Days, Rites, Customs, Habits, and Characters; the most important Transactions of Ecclesiastical Councils, Synods, &c. explaining all such ambiguous Words and Phrases as have a proper Connexion with the Subjects of this History. By an impartial hand.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The behaviour of the cl-gy, as well as their traditions, destructive of religion. Or, a succinct history of priestcraft, Throughout all ages. Containing, A general Introduction of the Institution of all pretended Revelations. - Remarks on Priestcraft amongst the Greeks: The strange Superstition of that learned People, proved to be the Ruin of Athens. - Remarks on Roman Priestcraft, their Augurs, Pontiffs, &c. - An Account of the Bramins, Bonzees, Talapoins, and other Eastern Priests: with a curious History of the Pharisees and Sadduces among the Jews. - Popish Priestcraft unveil'd, particularly with regard to our own Island. Concluding with The Secret Intrigues of the Gown with all Parties from the Reformation to the Vicars Ap---cy. Dedicated to the Most Worthy Sect of Free-Thinkers. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests and Deacons, with true Knowledge and Understanding of thy Word; and that both by their Preaching and Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly. Liturgy of the Ch. of England.
Date: 1731- Books
[Box of scientific papers by J.K. Crellin].
Crellin, J. K.Date: 1966-1974]- Books
Pauper capital : London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 / David R. Green.
Green, David R., 1954-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
It started in a cupboard : adventures in life, learning and happiness / Kenneth Calman.
Calman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Charles)Date: 2019- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, in all branches of learning: Containing several libraries lately purchased, In which are included those of Monsieur Sanson, and The Rev. Mr. Francis Peck, lately deceased. The books are in fine Condition, and great Numbers of them elegantly Bound. Amongst many more valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio. Winstanley's Views of Audly End Atkyns's Gloucestershire Carte's Hist. England, 4 v. in Russia leather Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Prints of the Antiquarian Society, 2 vol. in Russia leather Wood's Palmyra Universal History, 10 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquitics and Suppl. in 8 v. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all Nations, with Picart's cuts, 6 vol. Thurloe's State Papers, large and sm. pap. Bacon's Works, large and small paper Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. large paper Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 2 vol. Peere William's Reports, 3 vol. Ventris's Reports, best edit. Ld. Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Lilly's Conveyancer, 2 vol. best edit. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwayte's Dictionary, 2 v. Bayle's Dictionary, l. pap. in Turkey, 5 vol. - Dict. sm. pap. 5 vol. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. James's Med. Dict. 3 vol. Folio. Platonis Opera Serrani, 3 tom. -- Ficini, edit. opt. -- Gr. ap Aldum Aristophanes Kusteri Xenophon Leunclavii Euripides Barnesii Thucydides Dukeri Plutarchi Opera, a Zylandri, 2 tom. Idem, compact. in 4 tom. Lucian Bourdelotio Demostthenes Wolfii Aeschylus Stanleii Polybius Casauboni The King of Poland's Gallery, bound in Russia leather Count Bruhl's Gallery, in Russia leather Columna Trajana & Antonina Ectypa Varia ad Hist. Illust. a T. Hearne Musaeum Veronens. Cortonense, Odescaleum, Romanum, &c. Corps Diplomatique, 23 vol. complet. Ocuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. grande pap. Etat de la France, par Boullanvilliers, 3 t. Guiccuardin Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Ven. Davlla, 2 tom. Ven. Thuani Hist. Sui Temp. 7 t. ch. max. Le Neptune Francoise Par. Clarke, 4 v. Burnet's Reform. 3 vol. Tillotson, Barrow, &c. Waltoni Bib. Polyglotta & Lex. 8 t. Critici Sacri & Supp. 13 tom. Clerici in Vet. & Nov. Test. 6 tom. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, on Monday, February 13th, 1758, and continue till are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews-Gate, near St. Martin's-Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 d. (to be returned) to be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Strahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's-Street; Mr. Matthews and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1758]- Ephemera
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Sir Francis Burdett holds up a bonnet rouge shaped like a fool's cap as he and Samuel Whitbread encourages those who are making a bonfire of statutes on the cobbles of Palace Yard; Westminster Hall is stoned and demolished by the mob beyond. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585521i- Pictures
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Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: Oct 27 1834 :Reference: 643195i- Pictures
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Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
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The evolution of community medicine. Part 1, The rise of the public health movement.
Date: 1984- Videos
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The evolution of community medicine. Part 5, The poor law and the national health.
Date: 1984