Stories
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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Surviving as a working-class woman without work
An enforced period of unemployment was extremely tough for Claire Hart, a working-class woman with a strong work ethic. Here she describes her feelings during this difficult time.
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Dynamo on the past, present and future of magic
The magician takes a tour and shares stories of history and inspiration.
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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
Catalogue
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Arthur Rothwell, per-fumer, at the Civet-cat and Rose. In New Bond-Street, Lon-don. (Late partner with Mr. James Smyth.) Imports, makes and sells, ... all sorts of perfumes, snuffs, &c.
Rothwell, Arthur, perfumer.Date: 1740?]- Books
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A report to the Honourable the Commissioners for putting in execution the act, intitled, An act, for the taking, examining, and stating the publick accounts of the Kingdom. From Charles Davenant. L. L. D. Inspector General of the Exports and Imports. Part I.
Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.Date: [1712]- Books
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Observations on the commerce of the American States. By John Lord Sheffield. With an appendix, Containing Tables of the Imports and Exports of Great Britain to and from all Parts. Also, the Exports of America, &c. With Remarks on those Tables, and on the late Proclamations, &c.
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An account of the trade between Great-Britain, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Africa, Newfoundland, &c. With the importations and exportations of all commodities, particularly of the woollen manufactures. Deliver'd in two reports made to the commissioners for publick accounts. By Charles Davenant, L.L. D. late inspector general of the Exports and Imports.
Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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A view of the United States of America, in a series of papers, written At Various Times between the years 1787 and 1794; by Tench Coxe, of Philadelphia, Commissioner of the Revenue. Interspersed With Authentic Documents: The Whole Tending To Exhibit The Progress And Present State Of Civil And Religious Liberty, Population, Agriculture, Exports, Imports, Fisheries, Navigation, Ship-Building, Manufactures, And General Improvement.
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824.Date: 1795
