Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
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Life sciences blueprint : a statement from the Office for Life Sciences.
Date: 2009- Books
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Building scientific capacity for development : Government and UK Collaborative on Development Sciences Response to the Committee's fourth report of session 2012-13 : fourth special report of session 2012-13 / House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology.Date: 2013- Books
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Pre-appointment hearing with the government's preferred candidate for Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) : eighth report of session 2014-15 : report, together with formal minutes relating to the report.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and TechnologyDate: 2015- Books
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Prospectus. The British register or a choice of the most interesting articles, selected from all the English Periodical Works, relative to the Literature, Arts, Sciences, History, Agriculture, Commerce, Chymistry, Physic, Medecine, Law, Manners and Customs of Great Britain. The price of the subscription is one guinea or 24 liv. of France, when taken at Liege from J. J. Tutot, Printer and Proprietor of the Journal, or at the Imperial Post-Office of that city: 27 liv. when taken at Paris at Mme. la veuve Valade, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue des Noyers: 33 liv. post-free throughout all France at the lame adres. for foreign countries application may lihewire be made at the Imperial Post-Office of Francfort. L'Esprit des Journaux Anglois.
Date: [1786?]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The antient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. An Account of the Arts and Sciences. VI. Rules for Behaviour. Vii. Advice to young Persons on their entering upon the World; with short Rules of Religion and Morality. Viii. Tables of Weights and Measures. IX. Explanation of Abreviations used in Words and Dates. X. The Seven Wonders of the World. XI. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountains. XII. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: 1760