Stories
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Fairs, fires and the future of Smithfield
As meat trading in the area ends, Tom Bolton looks at the history of London’s Smithfield, which has been a place of healing and death, markets and mess for 900 years.
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How to play with people who are better than you
It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
Catalogue
- Books
Fairs, festivals and fertility in Alkmaar, North Holland, 1650-1810 / Evelyn Lord.
Lord, EvelynDate: 1989- Books
Fairs, markets and the itinerant book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: 2007- Books
Medicine and public health [in Hay-on-Wye] / [Geoffrey L. Fairs].
Fairs, Geoffrey L.Date: 1972- Books
A history of the Hay : the story of Hay-on-Wye / by Geoffrey L. Fairs.
Fairs, Geoffrey L. (Geoffrey Lowrie)Date: 1972- Journals
Annual reports of proceedings under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, etc., etc., for the year.