Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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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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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
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Modern characters: illustrated by histories in real life, and address'd to the polite world. ...
Date: M,D,CC,LIII. [1753]- Books
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British public characters of 1798.
Date: [1798]- Books
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A character of the Reverend -
Date: 1725- Books
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The characters of Theophrastus, with a strictly literal translation of the Greek into Latin, and with notes and observations on the text, in English: for the benefit of Hertford College. By the late R. Newton, D. D. and Principal.
Theophrastus.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Sketches of the characters of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, and James Mingay, Esq. interspersed with anecdotes and professional strictures.
Date: 1794