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How hip-hop can save your mental health
Hip-hop is an unusual tool in the mental health professional’s armoury. But fans and performers can testify to the sympathetic and restorative powers of the genre.
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Giving shape to sound
Fascinated by language and how music feels, Deaf rapper Signkid creates tracks that give shape to sound. He discusses inspiration, access and performing for all audiences, D/deaf and hearing alike.
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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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Fragmens d'histoire et de litterature, entremêlés de plusieurs anecdotes, curieuses et interessantes, Recueillies et traduites en françois. Pour paroitre sous les Auspices et avec la Permission de la Duchesse de Devonshire. Par M. Hop.
Hop, M.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Hop-Garden or, directions For Planting and Managing hops
J. A.Date: 1721- Books
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A Letter to S.F.Waddington, Esq. in reply to this appeal to the British hop-planters. "Be candid where you can."
Date: 1800- Books
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The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening : in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art.
Date: 1640- Books
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The hop-Planter's assistant; containing, an accurate and exact collection of useful tables, shewing the price of any quantity of hops, &c. from One Pound to Twenty Hundred Weight, by the Addition of One Shilling from Twenty Shillings per Hundred to Ten Pounds per Hundred, all Fractional Parts (of no Importance in Trade) only omitted. Intended Not only for the Use of Those that deal in Hops, but for Those likewise who are concern'd in divers other Branches of Trade and Commerce: to which is added, an useful table, for those that deal in clover-seed, which being usually bought by the Bushel, shews the Price of One Hundred, by the Addition of Six-Pence from Eight Shillings per Bushel to Forty Shillings per Bushel. By John Rogerson.
Rogerson, John (Accountant)Date: [1747]