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Publications, recommended to the perusal of the public, in the present crisis. Number I. Containing, one penny-worth of truth; ten minutes' caution; and a country curate's advice, &c.
Date: [1792?]- Pictures
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Six flowering plants, including penny cress (Thlaspi arvense) and shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24760i- Books
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Considerations humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, for raising to Her Majesty the sum of 89730 l. per ann. And thereby to advance the interest of the poor 196575 per ann. and will ad to the consumption of the manufactury 327625 per ann. And no duty laid on any manifactury, nor any of her Majestys subjects one penny the worse.
Tapscott, William.Date: 1711?]- Videos
Pennies from Bevan.
Date: 1998- Books
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Remarks on London: being an exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the suburbs and liberties contiguous to them, by shewing where every Street, Lane, Court, Alley, Green, Yard, Close, Square, or any other Place, by what Name soever called, is situated in the most Famous Metropolis; so that Letters from the General and Penny-Post Offices cannot Miscarry for the future. An Historical Account of all the Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parochial Churches, Chapels, and Tabernacles, within the Bill of Mortality: Shewing therein the sett Time of publick Prayer, Celebrating the Sacraments, Morning and Evening Lectures, and Preaching Sermons, both Ordinary and Extraordinary; with many curious Observations. Places to which Penny-Post Letters and Parcels are carried, with Lists of Fairs and Markets. What places sends Members to Parliament. To what Inns Flying-Coaches, Stage-Coaches, Waggons and Carriers come, and the Days they go out; lately collected. Keys, Wharts and Plying-Places on the River of Thames. Instructions about the General Post-Office. Description of the great and cross Roads from one City and eminent Town to another, in England and Wales. A perpetual Almanack. The Rates of Caochmen, Chairmen, Carmen, and Watermen. A perpetaul Tide-Table; and several other necessary Tables, adapted to Trade and other Business. All Alphabetically digested; and very useful for all Gentlemen, Ladies, Merchants, Tradesmen, both in City and Country. The like never before extant. By W. Stow.
Stow, William.Date: 1722- Pictures
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A carriage representing "Radicalism" is being ransacked by a group of highwaymen, one of whom is wearing a shirt on which is written "Revolution". Lithograph after W. Morgan, 12 September 1885.
Date: 12 September 1885Reference: 564635i- Ephemera
The peoples' penny pictures. No.1, December 8, 1832 : My friends and fellow countrymen, it is high time you should know what is going on.
Date: 1832- Books
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A groatsworth of wit for a penny. Or, the interpretation of dreams. Shewing, I. How a Man or Maid by their Dreams may know whether they shall have them they love. II. How a Man may obtain the Love of his Mistress. III. How a Man may obtain Money in hard Times. IV. How a Man may make Choice of a loving Wife. V. How they may continue in Amity, and not be poor. VI. How to know an honest Woman from a Whore. Vii. How young Men and Maids may discover the Reality of their Lover. Viii. How they may know what Planet they were born under, what their Fortunes be, and which shall die first, the Man or the Wife. IX. How a Man may know each Day in every Month, whether himself, Wife, Child, or friend that is sick, shall live or die. X. What the Appearance of a Comet or blazing Star signifies. XI. How you may contrive a Night-Spell to catch Thieves. By Mr. Lillie.
Date: [1780?]- Pictures
A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751Reference: 26961i- Pictures
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Witchcraft: Macbeth seeing the three witches, with other horrifying visions. Etching after J. Reynolds, ca. 1786-1790, after W. Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Reference: 47617i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+50.
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The Apollino. Etching by R. Dalton, 1746.
Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.Date: 28 March 1746Reference: 663940i- Archives and manuscripts
VHS Recording featuring the campaigning work of ACT
Date: 1995Reference: SA/ACT/G/8Part of: Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT)- Archives and manuscripts
VHS Recordings featuring the campaigning work of ACT
Date: 1995Reference: SA/ACT/G/7Part of: Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT)- Archives and manuscripts
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Parkes Pamphlet Collection: Volume 47
Date: 1865-1869Reference: RAMC/474/47Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence concerning Bullows Trust
Date: 1914-1945Reference: WF/C/E/04/114Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Voices of Victorian London.
Date: 1996- Books
Laboratory animal welfare / edited by Kathryn Bayne, Patricia V. Turner.
Date: 2014- Pictures
Ariadne abandoned by Theseus on Naxos: as the fleet of Theseus departs, Bacchus appears from behind a tree. Etching by F. Vivares, 1742, after Claude Lorraine.
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.Date: Oct.r 25th 1742Reference: 3055819i- Archives and manuscripts
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Vol. 3. Male and female patients admitted May 1850-June 1853
Camberwell House AsylumDate: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.6221Part of: Camberwell House Asylum- Pictures
Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
Reference: 18136i- Archives and manuscripts
Thomas Hodgkin DCL (1831-1913), also known as Thomas Hodgkin junior, and his family
Date: 1787-1951Reference: PP/HO/GPart of: Hodgkin family- Books
Stairs and whispers : D/deaf and disabled poets write back / edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 35. 'The Resurgence of Breastfeeding, 1975-2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2006-2010Reference: GC/253/A/35Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Sequah
Sequah LtdDate: 1890-1892Reference: GC/69