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Arthur Schuster, lying on an armchair by a fireplace, with a photograph of Lord Kelvin behind him. Photograph, c. 1901.
Date: 1901Reference: 33271i- Books
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The answer unto the letter written to a Quaker in Norfolk.
Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Pictures
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An unwell woman bombarded by her five friends' different recommendations of a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1882Reference: 14281i- Books
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A theologico-philosophical dissertation concerning worms in all parts of human bodies: containing several most curious and uncommon observations of natural productions. In a letter to a friend.
De Gols, Gerard.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
The Cambridge "Apostles" / by Frances M. Brookfield.
Brookfield, Frances M. (Frances Mary)Date: 1906- Pictures
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The coffin of W.E. Gladstone lying in state in Westminster Hall, attended by five men praying. Drawing by G.B. Scott after A. Kemp Tebby, 1898.
Tebby, Arthur Kemp, 1866-1957.Date: 1898Reference: 571922i- Pictures
On the left, the devil embraces the Duke of Wellington dressed as a woman and a lady with apron and bonnet in a prison cell; on the right, a couple exchanges kisses through iron railings while two men sneak into the back entrance of a jeweller's. Wood engravings.
Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 39623i- Archives and manuscripts
Religious Society of Friends
Date: Feb 1956Reference: PENROSE/3/17/4Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
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Horae subsecivae / by John Brown.
Brown, John, 1810-1882.Date: 1882- Archives and manuscripts
Richard Whiteing: Letters to Dr [Arthur R] Waddell
Richard WhiteingDate: Early 20th centuryReference: MS.8157- Books
Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose.
Smith, Meg Weston.Date: [2013]- Books
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The parallel: or, a vindication of His Gr-e the A-b-p of Ct-y, for his opposing the promotion of Dr. Sl Ck to a Bishoprick. Occasion'd by a late pamphlet, intitled, The reasons alledged against Dr. R-'s promotion to the See of Gr, seriously and dispassionately considered. With some Remarks thereon. In a letter to a friend. By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge.
Gentleman of the University of Cambridge.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Pictures
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John Bull shaking the hand of a sick man; referring to Wellington's illness and depression due to political strain. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 28 December 1831Reference: 12235iPart of: HB Sketches- Books
Friends & influences : the memoirs of an artist / Gary Sargeant.
Sargeant, Gary.Date: 2013- Pictures
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Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: May 26 1829Reference: 31630i- Archives and manuscripts
Liston, Robert (1794-1847), Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College London
Robert Liston, 1794-1847, Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College LondonDate: 1834-1864Reference: MSS.6084-6096Part of: Liston, Robert (1794-1847), Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College London- Books
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A defence of a pamphlet lately published: entitled, Thoughts upon several interesting subjects, Viz. On the Exportation of, and Bounty upon Corn. On the high Price of Provisions. On Manufactures, Commerce, &c. Being a reply to the appendix, annexed to The expediency of a free exportation of corn at this time; In Which the Misrepresentation, false Reasoning, and wilful Deceit of the said Author, is fully exposed, and refuted: in a second letter to a friend. By Mr. Wimpey.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: [1770]- Books
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Thoughts upon several interesting subjects, viz. On the exportation of, and bounty upon corn, On the high Price of Provisions, On Manufactures, Commerce, &c. being a full answer to a pamphlet, lately published, intitled, The expendiency of a free exportation of corn at this time, &c. In Which 'tis proved, the Facts advanced by the Author, are falsified; and his Conclusions erroneous and false. With a Postscript, Containing some Remarks on the Bounty on Checks, printed Linens and Cottons, &c. and on Bounties in general. In a letter to a friend. By Mr. Wimpey.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: [1770]- Archives and manuscripts
Liston, Robert (1794-1847), Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College London
Liston, Robert, 1794-1847Date: 1834-1901Reference: MSS.6084-6104- Archives and manuscripts
Family correspondence
Date: 1874-1960Reference: PP/KLE/A.1-7Part of: Klein, Melanie- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
Date: [1829]Reference: 662572i- Pictures
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The Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of Oxford University, wearing academic robes and carrying a mace, instructs his Tory supporters portrayed as academics in gowns and mortar boards. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1834.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: March 14th 1834Reference: 35688iPart of: HB sketches- Archives and manuscripts
Florence Nightingale and William Farr
Farr, William (1807-1883)Date: 1857-1912Reference: MS.8033- Books
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The fourth volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious, moral, comical, and satyrical. Consisting of Poems on several Occasions. Laconics; or, new Maxims of State and Conversation. The Praise of the Bottle. A Match for the Devil, a Poem. An Essay on Women. The Charms of the Bottle, a Friend to the Ladies. A new Million-Adventure, invented for Ladies that want Husbands, and younger Brothers that want Wives. Commendatory Verses on the Author of the two Arthurs. Collected by Mr. Brown. With a compleat Collection of Mr. Brown's Dialogues. Viz. Poet Bayes's Conversion, in two Parts. Joe Haynes's Conversion and Reconversion. The Welch Levite toss'd in a Blanket. The Reasons of the new Converts taking the Oaths to the Government. Reflexions on Julian Johnson's Argument, and the Pastoral Letter, &c. And Mr. Brown's Translation of the best Odes out of Horace.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1709- Pictures
Nora Schuster aged 3, seated, facing forwards. Photograph by Mrs Fred Wilkinson, c. 1895.
Date: 1895Reference: 33293i