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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Human longevity : recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 : comprising a period of 1733 years : with anecdotes of the most remarkable / by James Easton.
Easton, James, 1759-1839.Date: 1799- Books
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Wonderful news from Wales: or, A true narrative of an old woman : living near Lanselin in Denbyshire; whose memory serves her truly and perfectly to relate what she hath seen and done one hundred and thirty years ago. Having now the full number of her teeth; the most of them were lost when she was three score years and ten. She is also remembred by some of ninety years old, to be taller than she is by 17 or 18 inches; with several other circumstances of her life, which shews her to be the wonder of our age. Licensed August 9. 1677.
Date: Anno Dom. 1677- Books
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Viæ rectæ ad vitam longam, pars secunda : VVherein the true vse of sleepe, exercise, excretions, and perturbations is, with their effects, discussed and applied to euery age, constitution of body, and time of yeare. By To: Venner Doctor of Physicke in Bathe.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1623- Books
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Via recta ad vitam longam: or, A plaine philosphicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preseruation of health : with diuers necessary dieticall obseruations; as also of the true vse and effects of sleepe, exercise, excretions and perturbations, with iust applications to euery age, constitution of body, and time of yeere: by To. Venner, Doctor of Physicke in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, lately published by the same author.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1628- Books
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Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age : together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonardus Lessius, and now done into English.
Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623Date: 1634