Stories
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Race, religion and the Black Madonna
Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Pride a hindrance to true knowledge. A sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, before the University [of Oxford], on Sunday, June 27, 1847 / By Samuel, Lord Bishop of Oxford.
Wilberforce, Samuel, 1805-1873.Date: 1847- Books
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A seasonable admonition to the Church of England. A sermon preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on the twenty ninth of May, 1751.
Watson, George, 1723 or 1724-1773.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Pictures
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford: panoramic view showing All Soul's College, St. Mary's Church and Brasenose College. Pencil drawing by W.W. Burgess, 1901.
Burgess, William Walter, active 1874-1903.Date: 1901Reference: 21023i- Pictures
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National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford. Transfer lithograph by J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
Date: 13 June 1873Reference: 20877i- Pictures
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National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford: with a floor plan. Photolithographny J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
Date: June 13 1873Reference: 20876i