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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.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A philosophical enquiry concerning the nature, use, and antiquity of hemp. As it was deliver'd in a common-place. In a famous university. ...
Date: 1733- Books
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A treatise on hemp. In two parts. Containing I. Its history, with the Preparations and Uses made of it by the Antients. II. The methods of cultivating, dressing, and manufacturing it, as improved by the Experience of modern Times. Translated from the French of M. Marcandier, Magistrate of Bourges.
Marcandier, M.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Premiums for raising and dressing flax and hemp. The Commissioners and Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures, and Improvements in Scotland, do hereby advertise, that they are to give the under-mentioned premiums ...
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: 1779]- Books
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A treatise of hemp-husbandry; being a collection of approved instructions, as to the choice and preparation of the soils, most proper for the growth of that useful and valuable material, and also as to the subsequent management thereof, agreable [sic] to the experience o several countries wherein it has been produced, both in Europe and America. With some introductory observations, upon the necessity which the American British colonies are under, generally to engage in the said production; and upon the extensive usefulness, and great utility of the said material. By Edmund Quincy, Esq; [One line from Horace in Latin]
Quincy, Edmund, 1703-1788.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Short rules and observations for sowing of lint-seed and hemp-seed, and for pulling and dressing the flax and hemp.
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]