Stories
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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Enumeration of the inhabitants of Scotland, taken from the government abstracts of 1801, 1811, 1821 ; containing a particular account of every parish in Scotland, and many useful details respecting England, Wales and Ireland / [James Cleland].
Cleland, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1823- Books
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Ophthalmic conditions in the government schools in Egypt and their amelioration / [by A.F. MacCallan].
MacCallan, A. F. (Arthur Ferguson)Date: 1908- Books
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On small pox and its prevention, including experiments upon the lower animals : and on the establishment of government hospitals for this and some other contagious diseases in the suburbs of London / by Edwards Crisp.
Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.Date: 1871- Books
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The divine right of church-government by bishops, its universal reception, even in the first ages of the church, asserted and proved. D. Blondel's and others arguments against it considered. The challenge renewed, To shew any Church, till lately, that hath not been Governed by Episcopal Government. And a Perswasive to Dissenters to return to the Communion of the Church of England. Being a Preliminary Discourse to an History of the Government of the Church, for the Three First Centuries and the beginning of the Fourth. By Francis Brokesby, B. D. sometime Fellow of Trinity-College in Cambridge.
Brokesby, Francis, 1637-1714.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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New progress of surgery in France, or, Phenomena in the animal kingdom : published by command of the French government / translated from the French of Imbert Delonnes, by T. Chavernac ; embellished with very curious plates by W. Nutter.
Imbert-Delonnes, Ange Bernard, 1745-1820.Date: 1801