Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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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.
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Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written among some other essays, to a friend ; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1664- Archives and manuscripts
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With AN Historical Preface Relative to the Parts of Philosophy therein examined, and to the several Arts and Manufactures dependent on them. By Edward Hussey Delaval, F. R. S.
Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the cause of the permanent colours of opake bodies. By Edward Hussey Delaval, F. R. S. Of the Royal Societies of Upsal, and Gottingen, of the Institute of Bologna, and of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A treatise explanatory of the nature and properties of pollaplasiasmos; or, the original invention of multiplying pictures in oil colours, with all the Properties of the Original Paintings; whether in regard to Outline, Size, Varlety of Tints, &c. Together with a proposal for a subscription for forming a collection of pictures, truly original on different subjects. Interspersed With Occasional Remarks on the Utility of Painting-on the modern Improvements in that Art,-And on the Merits of the English School. Magna est Veritas, et prevalebit. By J Booth. A Specimen of this Art may be now inspected at the Inventor's House, No. 6, Upper James'-Street, North Corner of Golden-Square.
Booth, Joseph, -1789.Date: [1784]