Stories
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Dazzling luxury
As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.
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Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
Catalogue
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1879 and all that : essays in the theory and history of psychology / Mary Henle.
Henle, Mary, 1913-2007.Date: 1986- Archives and manuscripts
Bertheim, Alfred (1879-1914)
Date: 1879-1914Reference: MS.6077Part of: Bertheim, Alfred (1879-1914), chemist- Archives and manuscripts
Calendar for 1879
Date: 1879Reference: SA/RSP/A/5/3Part of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Archives and manuscripts
Diary (fees), 1879
Date: 1879Reference: MS.4559Part of: Shillitoe, Buxton (1826-1916)- Archives and manuscripts
G. Perier (fl.1879), physician
Date: 1879Reference: MS.7390/120-121Part of: Miscellany: French, 19th century