Stories
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A wee spot of bother
Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
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Eleganti? Terentian?: or the phrases of Terence. Digested in an alphabetical method, in Latin and English. For the use of schools.
Terence.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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Farther English examples; or, book of cautions for children, in rendering English into Latin; With the Signification and Use of certain English Particles. With Phrases, English and Latin, under each Head. Containing also, I. Useful Observations for the Young Beginner. II. Figura, or the Figures of Construction. Each Part explained by proper Examples. Also a vocabulary, English and Latin.
Date: 1792- Books
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Farther English examples, or, book of cautions for children, in rendering English into Latin; with the signification, and use of certain English particles. With Phrases, English and Latin, under each Head. Containing also, I. Useful Observations for the Young Beginner. II. Figura, or the Figures of Construction. Each Part explained by proper Examples. Also a vocabulary, English and Latin.
Date: 1782- Books
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Familiares colloquendi formulæ, in usum scholarum concinnatæ; ... Partim collectæ, partim compositæ. Editio decima octava, correctior & castigatior, & aliqua parte auctior. ...
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1709- Books
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Farther English examples, or, book of cautions for children, in rendering English into Latin, with the signification and use of certain English particles. Containing also, I. Useful Observations for the Young Beginner. II. Figura, or the Figures or Construction. Each Part explained by proper Examples. With a vocabulary, English and Latin.
Date: 1776