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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Ethics, Rational and Theological, with cursory reflections on the general principles of deism. By John Grose, F. A. S.
Grose, John, 1758-1821.Date: [1782]- Books
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Some thoughts upon deism, with Respect to Happiness both Public and Private.
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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Two letters from a deist to his friend, concerning the truth and propagation of deism, in opposition to Christianity. With remarks.
Stevens, Nicholas, 1704?-Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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An antidote against Deism, extracted from Holy Scripture, Designed for the use of young persons just entering into the great world, to guard them against the pernicious, impious tenets of modern free-thinkers or voltairists. By a lover of pure and undefiled religion.
Lover of pure and undefiled religion.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Deism disarmed; or a short answer to Paine's Age of reason, on principles self-evident, but seldom produced.
Date: 1794