Stories
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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.
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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.
- Interview
How to design an HIV awareness campaign
Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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A most humble and seasonable proposal to the Queen, to raise money without any tax, sufficient to rebuild her royal palace of White-Hall, in greater magnificence than ever: ...
Date: [1712?]- Books
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A proposal for raising the annual sum of 28383l. 6s. 8d. ... By John Thorpe, starch-maker.
Thorpe, John, starch-maker.Date: 1711]- Books
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Sir, The committee of the society of schoolmasters beg leave to inform you of their recently-established institution, and to solicit your patronage and support. The principal object of this society is to raise a fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of such schoolmasters as may die in necessitous circumstances: and the plan for effecting this, is by the subscriptions of the schoolmasters themselves, and by the donations of others, who from benevolent motives may wish to encourage the institution. ...
Society of Schoolmasters (London, England)Date: 1800- Books
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A scheme for a lottery, To raise 1,100,000l. on a Fund of 110,000l. per Ann. to be Settled for 16 Years, on Soap, Paper, Callicoes, Transfers and Stamps, &c.
Carter, Richard, active 17th century-18th century.Date: 1714]- Books
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A scheme of a lottery for raising one million eight hundred thousand pounds, on the settled fund of 168,003l. per annum, for 32 years, on soap, paper, silks &c.
Carter, Richard, active 17th century-18th century.Date: [1711]