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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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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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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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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The court and city vagaries : or intrigues, of both sexes. Written by one of the fair sex.
One of the fair sex.Date: [1710?]- Books
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A table of the antient ale measures of England, as computed from the antient ale pint, containing 183/4 sterling or English ounces, or 205/6 Roman or avoirdupois ounces, (being 1/24 Part larger than the Winchester Corn Pint), received from the Jews, Tyrians, and other Phenicians.
Fair, George.Date: 1797]- Books
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The court and city vagaries, or intrigues, of both sexes. Written by one of the fair sex.
One of the fair sex.Date: [1710?]- Books
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A full and true account of a curious dialogue between one Mr. D'Anvers, and one Mr. Cut, a great tobacco-merchant; and one Mr. Dash, a rich vintner: Which happened on Sunday Night, at the Sign of the Swan in Hoop in Cornhill. With remarks thereupon, by a fair trader.
Fair trader.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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The origin of Fairlop Fair, annually held round the great oak, on Hainault Forest, in Essex, On the first Friday in July. With an account of the founder, Mr. Daniel Day; perspersed with many genuine Anecdotes of that worthy Character, whose Simplicity of Manners could only he equalled by the Rectitude of his Heart.
Date: [1796?]