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Thunderbolts and lightning

Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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  • Mr. Pearsall's lectures and visits, (as agent and lecturer to the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes).
  • Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff.
  • Henry Grace, A lecture on health and its preservation
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • Design for the music and lecture amphitheatre, Cambridge University. Line engraving.
  • Natural and experimental philosophy: gentlemen attending to a lecture. Engraving, 1748.
  • Lecture notes and sketchs of bones and muscle structure by Dr Thomas Graham taken during a lecture by Russel on Natural Philosophy on 8th December 1834 in Edinburgh
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