Stories
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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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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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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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.
![[Handbill (20 December 1886) for a variety show at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties (Westminster Bridge Road, London, England) featuring the 8 foot tall Belgian giant Alfredo Devartos as well as Testo (strong man) and Onri].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2848034x_EPH_499A_54_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill (about 1874?) for Crecraft's Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall (London, England) featuring "Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd, the smallest people living, the king and queen of the Lilliputians"].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480363_EPH_499A_55_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
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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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The history of the life and reign of the valiant Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward the First of England, Son to King Henry the Third; and his Princess Eleonora. On which history, is founded a play, written by Mr. Thomson, call'd, Edward and Eleonora; Now in Rehearsal at the Theatre in Covent-Garden. Extracted from the best historians. With a geographical description of that Prince's expedition to the Holy-Land, &c.
Date: 1739- Books
An entertainment under the immediate patronage of their most gracious majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in aid of the British Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem at His Majesty's Theatre : presented under the direction of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, on Tuesday, July 5th, 1904 / programme... by Charles J.W. Cull.
Cull, Charles J. W.Date: 1904- Books
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Richard the Third. A tragedy. Taken from the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The whole life and character of Jane Shore. Being a full account of her birth, parentage, education, conversation, marriage, rise, amours with King Edward the Fourth, Disgrace, and Penance at St. Paul's Cathedral, and her miserable Fall and Death; set forth from the best historians, especially the famous Sir Thomas More, Kt. Lord High Chancellor of England. which is now acted at both the Queen's Theatre, in Drury-Lane and the Hay-Market.
Date: [1713?]