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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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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
Dixon, E. H., active 1835-1859.Date: 1837Reference: 38709i- Books
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King George for England. A new ballad, To an Old Tune: Necessary to be sung by all True and Loyal Englishmen, upon all Occasions; more especially at the present Conjuncture. To the Tune of the second Part of St. George for England. By Humphry Chaunter, Esq; Poet Laureat to Mumpsimus the IIId, King of the Gipsies.
Chaunter, Humphrey.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A letter to a minister of state, Concerning the Pretended Prince of Wales's Being Proclaim'd King of England, &c. in France. With some Thoughts on the Interest of England in this Critical Juncture. And of the Necessity of a Speedy and Vigorous War, in order to preserve the Liberties of Europe, and to restrain the Exorbitant Power of France.
Date: 1701- Books
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The unfortunate officer: or, the history of Monsieur Bertin, Marquis De Fratteaux, Knight of the Military Order of St. Louis, and Captain of Horse. who was, on Friday the 27th of March 1752, in a clandestine manner, forcibly carried from London to France by one Blasdel a Bailiff, his Follower, and other Accomplices; having been first arrested by the former for a suspicious Debt: Containing the Particulars relating thereto. Also, an account of all his sufferings ever since the age of sixteen; having been most cruelly persecuted by an Unnatural Father, by whose Contrivances he could neither live quietly in Spain or England; and at last fell a Sacrifice to his Malice.
H***, M. le comte d'.Date: [1755?]- Books
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The antient method of preaching; as delivered in a sermon, no less godly than learned, preach'd at St. Paul's Cross, in the reign of King Richard II. Anno 1389. By R. Wimbledon. Published from the original Mss. found in the Records of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Revised and corrected by a late eminent Preacher: And humbly inscribed to the Clergy of the Church of England.
Wimbledon, Thomas.Date: 1745