Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
Catalogue
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The printed word : its impact and diffusion (primarily in the 15th-16th centuries) / Rudolf Hirsch.
Hirsch, Rudolf, 1906-1990.Date: 1978- Books
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Introduction to the literature of Europe, in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries / by Henry Hallam.
Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859.Date: 1855- Books
Union catalogue of printed books of 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories / Giovanna Grassi ; introduction of Paolo Maffei.
Grassi, Giovanna.Date: 1989- Books
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The roses; or King Henry the Sixth; An historical tragedy. Represented at Reading School, October 15th, 16th and 17th, 1795. Compiled principally from Shakespeare. Published, as it was performed, for the benefit of the Cheap repository For moral and instructive tracts.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: [1795]- Books
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Antrum magico-medicum: in quo arcanorum magico-physicorum, sigillorum, signaturarum & imaginum magicarum cum signatura planetarum constitutarum, ut et curationum magneticarum et characteristicarum ad omnes corporis humani affectus curandos: thesaurus ... Cui medicamenta etiam varia chymica ... conficiendi modus: tractatus item de rebus, quae humano corpori eximiam et venustam formam inducunt: de variis etiam metallorum et minerarum praeparationibus ... tractatio subjungitur. Accessit motus perpetui mechanici absque illo aquae, vel ponderis adminiculo conficiendi documentum / [Marco Antonio Zimara].
Zimara, Marco Antonio, active 15th-16th century.Date: 1625