Stories
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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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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 child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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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.
Catalogue
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The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Books
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The law of evidence, by Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. Considerably enlarged by Capel Lofft, Barrister at Law. To which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Author; his Abstract of Locke's Essay; and his Argument in a Case of Homicide in Ireland. ...
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: [1791]-96- Books
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The law of evidence: wherein all the cases that have yet been printed in any of our law books or trials, and that in any wise relate to Points of Evidence, are collected and methodically digested under their proper Heads: with necessary tables to the Whole.
Nelson, William, 1653-Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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The law of evidence: wherein all the cases that have yet been printed in any of our Law Books or Trials, and that in any wise relate to Points of Evidence, are collected and methodically digested under their proper heads, viz. I. Of Evidence in general. II. Of Witnesses in general. III. Of Witnesses that are infamous. IV. Of Witnesses that are interested in the Event of the Cause. V. Of written Evidence. VI. Of Evidence on the General Issue. Vii. Of Evidence in Actions on the Case on Promises. Viii. Of Evidence in Actions on the Case for Words, malicious Indictments, &c. IX. Of Evidence in Actions of Debt. X. Of Evidence in Actions of Trespass. XI. Of Evidence in divers Actions. XII. Of Evidence in Pleas of the Crown and Criminal Cases. With necessary tables to the whole.
Nelson, William, 1653-Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The law of evidence: wherein all the cases that have yet been printed in any of our law books or tryals, and that in any wise relate to points of evidence, are collected and methodically digested under their proper heads: with necessary tables to the whole.
Nelson, William, 1653-Date: 1717