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Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality / Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell.
Cenziper, DebbieDate: [2016]- Books
The war on women : and the brave ones who fight back / Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
Lloyd-Roberts, SueDate: 2016- Pictures
William Cobbett dressed as a farmer marches out of step towards the sea behind a recruiting serjeant and a drummer-boy. Etching by J. Gillray, 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 603148iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself- Pictures
Interior of the House of Lords during a public inquiry into Queen Caroline in 1820. Stipple engraving by J. G. Murray after J. Stephanoff.
Stephanoff, James, 1788?-1874.Date: 1 June 1823Reference: 42555i- Books
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The life and glorious actions of Edward Prince of Wales, (commonly call'd the Black Prince) Eldest Son of King Edward the Third. Containing, Remarkable Occurrences of those Times, and particular Relations of the Battle of Cressey, where the whole Power of France was broken, two Kings slain, and a third put to Flight. The Battle of Poictiers ten Years after, when he again overthrew the French, and took their King Prisoner. The Battle of Najara in Spain, where at one Blow he decided the Fate of a Kingdom, and forced the Spaniards to accept Don Pedro for their King. Also the history of his royal brother John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, and Father of Henry IV King of England, relating His several Expeditions, and an Account of his Right to the Kingdom of Spain. With His Marriages, Issue, and the Descendants from Him now existing; among which are the present Emperor of Germany, King of Spain, and King of Portugal. Collected from records, manuscripts, and historians by Arthur Collins, Esq;
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
The fires of lust : sex in the Middle Ages / Katherine Harvey.
Harvey, KatherineDate: 2021- Books
Moral tribes : emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them / Joshua D. Greene.
Greene, Joshua David, 1974-Date: 2013- Books
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The Universal historian; Giving a particular account of the Sovereign Princes now reigning in all parts of the world: the descent, births, marriages, intermarriages, issue, &c. of them and their respective families: their alliances, titles, pretensions; territories, religion, government, revenues, forces; universities, places of residence, coats of arms, &c. to be continued. Part I. Containing the history of the kings and kingdom of France.
Date: M.DCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.
Thaler, Richard H., 1945-Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
The rules do not apply : a memoir / Ariel Levy.
Levy, Ariel, 1984-Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Evans, Philip Rainsford (1910-1990), and Barbara (nee Hay-Cooper) (1909-1995)
Evans, Philip Rainsford, CBE,FRCP (1910-1990) PaediatricianDate: 1923-1989Reference: PP/PRE- Books
Miss Jane / Brad Watson.
Watson, Brad, 1955-2020Date: 2016- Books
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Memoirs of the life of Parnese, a Spanish lady of vast fortune. Written by herself: shewing the irresistable force of education: With A True Account of the Hardships she suffered, in Man's Apparel, for eight Years, in different Countries, in the Prosecution of a virtuous Amour with Rockbartez; her Escape from Slavery with Sarpeta, her Master's Daughter; their Flight into Persia; her accidental Marriage there to Rockbartez; and Return. Interspersed with the story of Beaumont and Sarpeta. Translated from the Spanish manuscript, by R.P. gent.
Paltock, Robert, 1697-1767.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Millan's universal register of Court and City-Offices, Army and Navy, &c. The most Correct and Copious extant. Containing Lists of Parliament, examined by the Test Rolls, &c. Scotch and Irish Peers. Births and Marriages of Princes. Court and City Offices. With Two Tables of the Pay of the Army and Navy, most curiously Engraved by Mr. Thoroughgood. To which now is added, The Militia or Provincial Regiments. Also, The Camp-Pay, Bat and Baggage-Money, &c. of all his Majesty's Forces. With many Additions not to be found in any other List.
Millan, John, -1782.Date: [1760]- Books
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Millan's universal register of Court and City-Offices, Army and Navy, &c. The most Correct and Copious extant. Containing Lists of Parliament, examined by the Test Rolls, &c. Scotch and Irish Peers. Births and Marriages of Princes. Court and City Offices. With Two Tables of the Pay of the Army and Navy, most curiously Engraved by Mr. Thoroughgood. To which now is added, a Succession of Colonels to this Time, and the Militia or Provincial Regiments. Also, the Camp-Pay, Bat and Baggage-Money, &c. of all his Majesty's Forces. With many Additions not to be found in any other List.
Millan, John, -1782.Date: [1761]- Archives and manuscripts
File: 'Cooper Family Private Notes Collected by JAH'; also 'Special Notes Kept for Reference' on the Cooper family
Date: c 1885 - c 1946Reference: WF/C/P/02/15Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The forc'd marriage: or the miseries and afflicting calamities of the unhappy Miss Betsey Ward. This beatuiful young Lady was the daughter of an eminent Grocer; his Apprentice a young Gentleman named Potter, possessed of a few Hundred Pounds paid his addresses to her, which she accepted, he being near out of his Time, and for a while affairs went on in a state of mutual Love; but Fortune changes, she is courted by a Rich Merchant's Son, and Mr. Potter thro' an unlucky accident Dies; her Father comples her to marry the Merchant, then by the wickedness and treachery of Lydia her Cousin, she is made most miserable ever after while she lived.
Date: [1785?]- Archives and manuscripts
Women's Therapy Centre
Women's Therapy CentreDate: c.1970s-2019Reference: SA/WTC- Books
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Miscellanies in prose and verse, consisting of dramatick pieces, poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. Under the following heads: I. The rival priests; or, The female politition: a farce. II. The perjur'd devotee, or Force of love: a comedy. III. Muscipula; sive, cambro-muo-ma chia: with a translation of it in Miltonick verse. IV. Back-gammon: or, The battle of the friars: a tale. V. The fair counsellor; or, The young lady's conduct after marriage: a matrimonial conference. VI. An essay on the nature of fable; with select tales and fables, and other mythological amusements; concluding with a short pastoral interlude, entitled, The absent nymph, or The doating swain. ... By D. Bellamy, some time since of St. John's College, Oxford, and D Bellamy, jun of Trinity-College, in Cambridge.
Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-Date: 1741- Books
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Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660 : In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)Date: [1660] [i.e. 1661]- Books
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The ladies new and polite pocket memorandum-book, for the year of our Lord 1789. Being the Twenty-Ninth of King George III. the Thirty-Eighth of the New Style in Great-Britain, and the First after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Embellished with a beautiful copper-plate, representing two ladies in the most fashionable dresses now worn; also an elegant Engraving of Somerset-Place from the Water. Containing, I. A Useful Memorandum-Book, &c. &c. II. Marketing Tables. III. Table of Interest. IV. The Chronologist for 1788; enumerating every remarkable and interesting Occurrence. V. A Table to cast up Wages. VI. Select Pieces of Poetry. VII. The most esteemed new Songs sung at Vaux Hall. VIII. New Country Dances for 1789. IX. Marriages and Deaths of the Nobility, &c. in the Year 1788. X. Holidays, Birth-Days, &c. for 1789. XI. Wealth, Wisdom, and Virtue, an Eastern Tale. XII. The Force of Love, an interesting Tale. XIII. Hackney-Coach Fares. XIV. Rates of Watermen.
Date: [1789]- Books
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Every man his own lawyer: or, A summary of the laws now in force in Ireland, in a new and instructive method, under the following heads, viz. I. Of actions and remedies. II. Of courts, attornies, and solicitors; grand and petit juries; witnesses, trials, judgments, executions, &c III. Of estates and property in lands and goods, and how acquired; ancestors, heirs, executors, and administrators. IV. Of the laws relating to marriage, bastardy, infants, ideots, and lunaticks. V. Of the liberty of the subject, and therein of the Popery Acts. VI. Of the King and his prerogative, the Queen, Prince, peers, judges, sheriffs, coroners, justices of peace, constables, &c. VII. Of church-wardens, overseers of the highways, and hearthmoney collectors. VIII. Of public offences, treason, murde[r], felony, burglary, robbery, rape, sodomy, forgery, perjury, &c. Whereby country gentlemen, merchants, tradesmen and others, may be particularly acquainted with our laws and statutes, concerning civil and criminal affairs, and know how to defend themselves, their estates and fortunes; in all cases whatsoever.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The Cruel father, or Unhappy lovers: Shewing the dreadful consequences, which sometimes attend the too harsh commands of parents, in endeavouring to force the inclinations of their children. Also the history of Clerimont, or the generous lover; Clerimont is the only son of a gentleman, of immense fortune; and falling in love with a young gentlewoman of great merit and beauty, importunes his father's consent to make him happy with the lovely maid; his refusal, and threatening to disinherit him; their keeping company in private, and his father's wanting him to marry another; his refusal, and his parent's death soon after; when as soon as decency would permit he made her his wife. Likewise, the history of Cordelia, or the tender mother; who being left a young widow, refused to ente the marriage state again, for fear of injuring her children, whom the brought up in the most tender manner; one of whom the brought up to the law, in which he was a great proficient, and a comfort to his parent; but the other being put to trade, at the expitation of his time, she gave him a pretty fortune, which by extravagance he soon run out, and was confined in goal for debt; her releasing him from thence, and again establishing him in trade, &c. &c.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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A new and complete geographical dictionary. Containing a full and accurate description of the several parts of the known world, as divided into continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, &c. The situation, extent, and boundaries, of all the empires, kingdoms, provinces, states, &c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their climates, zones, constitutions, revenues, forces, produce, languages, manufactures, trade, commerce, cities, chief towns, universities, curious pictures, ruins, antiquities, mines, vegetables, minerals, mountains, desarts, forts, castles, harbours, natural and artificial curiosities. Together with the religion, learning, policy, manners, customs, stature, shape, colour, and length of lives of the inhabitants; their virtues and vices; their ceremonies at births, marriages, and funerals; their political and church government, &c. To which will be prefixed, an introductory dissertation, explaining the figure and motion of the earth, the use of the globes, and doctrine of the sphere; with the improvements of the moderns, to render the science of geography easy and intelligible to every capacity. And to render this performance still more perfect and useful, we shall add to the description of every city and town in England, the names of the inns where their respective stage coaches and waggons put up in London, and the days and hours of their setting out from thence. Illustrated with an accurate set of maps, the dresses of the inhabitants, and variety of perspective views of the principal cities, towns, harbours, structures, ruins, &c. By Frederic Watson, M.A. vicar of sutton, and several other gentlemen.
Watson, Frederic.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A New miscellany. Containing, I. The judgment of Tiresias. II. The Queen of May. III. The smock-fac'd boy. IV. On the death of a young lady. V. the priest hood. VI. A court ballad. VII. An epitaph on a gentleman who was a great hunter. VIII. The immoral old maid. IX. The Norfolk Garland. X. A lesson for the ladies. XI. The difference betwixt love and friendship. XII. The enamoured brother to his sister. XIII. The beau. XIV. On colonel C---rs. XV. The bacchanalian song. XVI. Dr. W----ter to Dr. Che--ne. XVII. Dr. Che--ne's answer. XVIII. A burlesque on the late L--d M--r of Y--k in scripture stile. XIX. The rabbit-man-midwife. XX. A song on the murder of Mr. Hays by his wife. XXI. The coy mistress. XXII. Lord D-----'s epitaph on his sister. XXIII. On the A--b--p of Y--k and his C----n. XXIV. On the fifth of November. XXV. An epitaph on Dr. B--r--Y, formerly B-r-r of St. --- Cambridge. XXVI. The jovial cantab. XXVII. On his late M---y's gracious gift to the universities. XXVIII. On Dr. W--B---, aged 62, on his marriage with Jane Diver, aged 16. XXIX. The force of habit. XXX. The controversy between Mr. Pope and Mr. Theobalds, 1729. XXXI. The difference between the papists and presbyterians determined.
Date: 1730