Stories
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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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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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Dynamo on the past, present and future of magic
The magician takes a tour and shares stories of history and inspiration.
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An essay on the hereditary and indefeasible right of kings. Composed in the year 1745, by Lord Kames.
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782.Date: 1797- Books
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The history of hereditary-right from Cain to Nero: wherein its indefeasibleness, and all other such late doctrines concerning the absolute power of princes, and the Unlimited Obedience of Subjects, are fully and finally determin'd, by the Scripture-Standard of Divine Right. To which is prefix'd, a preface, by way of a modest challenge and addres to the British and Irish Jacobites, to answer what is said. By the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Fleming.
Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.Date: [1717]- Books
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King's right by divine law conditional, being a few observes from Scripture, of publick governors and right of Kings; in answer to the pretences of some for their darling's right, from the xxvii chapter of numbers, xvii of Deuteronomy 15th verse, and 1 Samuel viii Chap. with some remarks on Sir George Mackenzie's Jus Regium, and a few acts of Parliament before the revolution: ...
Date: 1747]- Books
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The land of Nineveh, a fragment. Addressed to the farmers of Great Britain and Ireland, by a friend to husbandry.
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.Date: 1795?]- Books
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The criterion: or, touchstone, by which to judge of the principles of High and Low-Church. In a letter to a friend.
Fransham, John, -1753.Date: [1710]