Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Conflicted and confused about lithium
Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
Catalogue
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Select classified list of home economics research, Great Britain 1922-1962 / compiled by Joan E. Walley [and] Alison M. Denny.
Date: 1964- Books
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Domestic economy and household science : for home education: and for school mistresses and pupil teachers / by Robert James Mann.
Mann, Robert James, 1817-1886.Date: 1892- Archives and manuscripts
Professor Oliver Wrong
Professor Oliver Wrong (1925-2012)Date: 1946 - 2016Reference: PP/WRO- Books
Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century / Laura Shapiro.
Shapiro, Laura.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
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The ladies accomptant, and the scholar's best accomplisher. In three parts. I. The first four rules in integers only; also, reduction, with the tables of weights, measures, &c. designed for the scholar's first, or foul book. II. Arithmetic in all the most necessary rules, with a great variety of questions in each; to which are added various bills of parcels for exercise in the different rules. III. An alphabetical list of abbreviations of words. -An explanation of marks and stops in pointing.-Forms of address to persons of distinction.-Receipts, promissory notes, Inland and foreign bills of exchange, complimentary cards, letters on various subjects.-Form of a petition, a bond, and of a will. To which are added, a variety of examples on the globes. The whole being designed for the use of schools, as a proper exercise book, and will be found very useful for the youth of both sexes. The second edition. By Charles Vyse, author of the Tutor's guide, &c.
Vyse, Charles, active 1770-1815.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]