Stories
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Sermons upon the following subjects, viz. The divinity of Jesus Christ. The millennium. The wisdom of God in the permission of sin. By Joseph Bellamy, ...
Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.Date: [1783]- Books
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Sermons upon the following subjects, viz. The divinity of Jesus Christ. The millennium. The wisdom of God in the permission of sin. By Joseph Bellamy, D. D. Minister of the Gospel at Bethlem.
Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.Date: 1787- Books
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Essays on several divine and moral subjects: particularly on the Christian temper and conduct. - Sober mindedness. -The Fear of God. -A Future State. -Marriage. -The Middle State. -The Imitation of Christ. -Degrees in Glory. -Religion. On the Sabbath. -Affliction. -Contentment. -A Pacific Disposition. -The Late Earthquakes. -The Advent and Crucifixion. -Moderation. Abradates and Panthea. By William Richardson of Blencowe, Vicar of Dacre in Cumberland.
Richardson, William, of Blencowe.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Sermons on several subjects, Viz. I. Of Good and Bad Examples. II. A Sermon on Christmas-Day. III. Of Publick Prayer and Thanksgiving. IV. Of not grieving the Holy Spirit. V. Of the Future Judgment. VI. Of Faith and Works. Vii. That Afflictions cause a just Sense of past Sins. Viii. Of the Folly and Uneasiness of the Ways of Sin. IX. Of the Desires and first Motions to Sin. X. Of the Unfruitful Works of Darkness. XI. Of setting God always before us. XII. Of perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God. XIII. The Excellency of the Christian Religion. XIV. God no Respecter of Persons. XV. Of doing good to all Men. XVI. Of our Souls being purified thro' the Spirit. Vol. II. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John, late Lord Bishop of Ely.
Moore, John, 1646-1714.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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Theophosoi [sic] theophiloi: God's fearers are God's favourites, or, An encouragement to fear God in the worst times : delivered in several sermons / by ... Nath. Tucker.
Tucker, Nath.Date: 1662