Stories
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The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
Catalogue
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The Halakhah : an encyclopaedia of the law of Judaism / by Jacob Neusner.
Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.Date: 2000- Books
Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture, which texts are now added in the end of the booke. Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people. And that many heathenish customes, originally have been unwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes / By Thomas Godwyn. B.D.
Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.Date: 1641- Books
Ceremonies et coûtumes qui s'observent aujourd'huy parmy les Juifs / Traduites de l'italien de Leon de Modene ... ; avec un supplément touchant les sectes des Caraïtes & des Samaritains de nostre temps. [par Richard Simon].
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.Date: 1681- Books
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The infancy of the world consider'd as a very unfit season for the manifestation of the Messiah: Wherein is shewn, That its Fondness for Rites and Ceremonies, was wholly owing to its Childishness and Ignorance. In a Discourse on Gal. iv. 4, 5.
Date: 1739- Books
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Sefer ʻavodat ha-ḳodesh : ʻim kol ha-shivʻah kokheve lekhet ... / mi-khoḥ gavra raba ... Ḥayim Yosef Daṿid Azulai.
Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806.Date: 5619 [1859]