Stories
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Being trans in the world of sex work
Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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How can we prevent violence?
Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.
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Horrid deed!!! Whereas some wicked and ill-disposed Person did, in the Night of the 14th, or early in the Morning of the 15th of Nov. instant, cut the sinew of a cow, above the Hough, the Property of John Cocks, Pitman, when grazing in a Field at Twizell, near Chester-le-Street, which has been the Cause of her Death. - The Atrocity of this vile Action is, if possible, increased, by the Distress it has brought upon the poor Sufferer and his Family; and in order to bring to Justice and Punishment the Person or Persons guilty thereof, a Reward of twenty guineas is hereby offered, to whoever will give Information of the Offender or Offenders, to be paid on his, her, or their Conviction, by applying to John Martindale, of the Flatts, near Chester-le-Street aforesaid.
Martindale, John.Date: [1799]- Books
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Thoughts on capital punishment. By Hugh Wade-Gery, M.A. late Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge.
Wade-Gery, Hugh, -1832.Date: 1800- Books
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Considerations on the injustice and impolicy of punishing murder by death. Extracted from the American museum. With additions. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: May 4--M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A Letter to the six men presently under sentence of death in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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An enquiry into the effects of public punishments upon criminals, and upon society. Read in the Society for Promoting Political Enquiries, ... March 9th, 1787. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. ...
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: 1787