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Navigating in a connected world
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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A history of mindfulness
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A brief history of ventilation
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History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) c. 1980 - 2000
Date: 2010 - 2012- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 44. 'History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) c. 1980 - 2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010-2012Reference: GC/253/A/44Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Videos
Children of the iron lung.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence - closed material
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010-2012Reference: GC/253/A/44/1bPart of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
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An introduction to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book, suited to the tender capacities of children: (adorned with cuts.) Containing, A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently, fitted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words - Fables. - Extracts from History. - The Church Catechism. - Graces and Prayers. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - An Introduction to Grammar, &c. The sixth edition: By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1785?]