Stories
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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.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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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.
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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.
Catalogue
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Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.
Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Paris Exposition (1878)Date: 1880- Books
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A fasciculus, including the re-publication of Observations on the ligature of arteries, secondary hemorrhage, and amputation at the hip-joint, A letter to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1835), on the assimilation of the Medical Departments of the Army and Navy in respect to rank and pay, besides rendering the naval hospitals of Great Britain, in future, schools for the acquisition of perfect skill, dexterity, and fortitude in the performance of all surgical operations, with the Order in Council of 1805, and A description of the medico-chirurgical ambulance, the invention of Dr. Veitch, for the day of battle / by James Veitch ; with an able and interesting letter from Sir George Magrath.
Veitch, James, 1770?-1856.Date: 1851- Books
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Reports on the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876.
Date: 1877-1878- Books
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Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)Date: 1851-[1852]- Books
Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)Date: 1851