Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
Catalogue
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List of the Society, instituted in 1787, for the purpose of effecting the abolition of the slave trade.
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Britannia libera, or a defence of the free state of man in England, against the claim of any man there as a slave. Inscribed and submited to the Jurisconsulti, and the free people of England.
Bollan, William, -1776.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Am I not a man? and a brother? With all humility addressed to the British legislature.
Peckard, Peter, 1718?-1797.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A short sketch of the evidence delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave-trade: to which is added, a recommendation of the subject to the serious attention of the people in general.
Crafton, William Bell.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A short sketch of the evidence for the abolition of the slave trade, delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons. To which is added, recommendations of the subject to the serious attention of people in general.
Crafton, William Bell.Date: 1792