Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Annual report of the Chief Veterinary Officer [of the] Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
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Agriculture, the primary interest of Great Britain. By David Young, author of National improvements.
Young, David, of Perth.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the president of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to enquire into foot-and-mouth disease.
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Foot-and-Mouth Disease Committee.Date: 1912- Books
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On the culture of potatoes: extracted from communications made to the Board of Agriculture in Great-Britain. Published by order of the trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. [Four lines from Swift]
Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to inquire into the requirements of the public services with regard to officers possessing veterinary qualifications.
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Committee on the Public Veterinary Services.Date: 1913