Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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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.
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Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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The crisis. Now or never: addressed to the people of England. Concluding with a poetical invocation to the genius of England: with a word of advice to C---- M------- By a Gloucestershire freeholder.
Gloucestershire freeholder.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Hints and cautions, for the information of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor Of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, In the County of Middlesex: and, Rules, Orders, and Regulations for Maintaining, Governing, Employing, and Regulating the said Poor; Made by the Vestry of the said Parishes, By virtue and in pursuance of the Statute 14 Geo. 3. c. 62.
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)Date: [1797]- Books
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The crisis, or an alarm to Britannia's true Protestant sons. In two parts, with an appendix to each of them. Containing. Among a Variety of other Things, An Address to King George. -To the Unbelieving Jews. -To our reverend Fathers the Bishops. -To our worthy Representatives. - To the licentious Writers of the public Papers. With a Prefatory Address to the two respectable Bodies, the Citizens and Merchants of London. By a disinterested, independent, and truly Protestant Briton.
Briton.Date: [1754]- Books
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The safety of the church under the present ministry consider'd, in a letter to - By a clergyman.
Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 1683 or 1684-1756.Date: [1715]- Books
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Folly predominant; or, The town taken in. With the palpable deception, and frothy orations, of four public orators, three of which suddenly springing up like mushrooms, must as soon decay: to which is added, a dissertation upon the impossibility of curing lunatics in Bethlem, except with those that would amend of themselves under proper Government in any other Place: And why more Cures are not performed in other Hospitals. - Also, (in Compliment to the Ladies) another upon the Felicity of Matrimony. - Likewise, an humourous and diverting Raree-Show. With the four orators effigies, in folio, sketched from the life, annexed to it. By Peter Billings, M.D. And Sole Professor of the Cure of Lunatics, experimentally, by a new and gentle Method, and in the highest Degree of Madness, proceeding from Pride or Love; Hypocondriacs, or Hysterics, now in London, or in any other Part of the World; who may be heard of at Mr. Mark Noble's, Peruke-Maker, next Door to Mr. John Taylor's, Oculist, in Hatton-Garden.
Billings, Peter.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]