Stories
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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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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An Act for encouraging and promoting fisheries, and other manufactures and improvements in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
Great Britain.Date: 1727- Books
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The advantages of an alliance with the Great Mogul: in which are principally considered three points of the highest importance to the British nation. I. The immediate Preservation and future Prosperity of the East India Company. II. The legal Acquisition of an immense Revenue to Great Britain. III. The promoting of a vast Increase in the Exports of British Manufactures. By John Morrison, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Great Mogul's Forces; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty George III. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c.
Morrison, John, Commander-in-Chief of the Great Mogul's forces.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The advantages of an alliance with the Great Mogul: in which are principally considered three points of the highest importance to the British nation. I. The immediate Preservation and future Prosperity of the East India Company. II. The legal Acquisition of an immense Revenue to Great Britain. III. The promoting of a vast Increase in the Exports of British Manufactures. By John Morrison, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Great Mogul's Forces; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty George III. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c.
Morrison, John, Commander-in-Chief of the Great Mogul's forces.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling : the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug, and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain. Five letters addressed to the right honourable Earl of Shaftesbury / by Major-General R. Alexander.
Alexander, Robert, -1879.Date: 1856- Books
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Acts and laws passed by the General court or Assembly of His Majesties colony of Connecticut in New-England: begun and held at Hartford, the fourteenth day of May, in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George, King of Great-Britain, &c. Anno Domini, 1719.
Connecticut.Date: 1719