Stories
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, M. P. Secretary of State, &c. &c. or, an appeal to the people of Great-Britain, being An answer to some Reflections cast upon ̀̀a Citizen, whose Loyalty (it was said) was ̀̀only confined to his Razor!'' In a debate in the House of Commons, February 21st, 1794, Occasioned by an intercepted Letter, Signed J. Harrison, A Sans Culotte, to which is added, an abstract of A Trial for an Assault committed on the Author, in the Name of ̀̀church and King for Ever.'' By Citizen John Harrison, Sheffield.
Harrison, John, active 18th century.Date: 1794- Books
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Les derniers r̂'egicides: Ou Madame lizabeth de France, et Louis XVII. Causes premières de la révolution - esprit des républiques. Par M. le Chev. de M.....
M., M. le chev. de.Date: 1796- Books
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Letters on political liberty, and the principles of the English and Irish projects of reform; addressed to a member of the English House of Commons.
Williams, David, 1738-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A letter from the Right Hon. - - to the Reverend. N. N.
O. O.Date: 1724]- Books
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Nouveaux intérêts de l'Europe depuis la Révolution Françoise.
Date: 1798