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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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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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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Pasteur Institute : Mansion House Fund.
Mansion House Relief Fund (London)Date: 1889
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The City of London: part of Mansion House Street with St. Paul's in the background. Etching, 1888.
Date: [1888?]Reference: 35961i- Books
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The curiosities of London and Westminster described. In four volumes. Embellished with elegant copper plates. Volume II. Containing a Description of Guildhall Guildhall Chapel The Bank of England St. Thomas's Hospital The Mansion House Foundling Hospital The East India House St. Stephen's Walbrook St. Mary le Bow Bridewell Hospital Christ's Hospital, and London Stone.
Date: [1783]- Books
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Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. White's Second defence of his letters, to a gentleman dissenting from the church of England, in a letter to the author.
Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The doctrine of predestination unto life explained and vindicated: in four sermons, preached to the Church of Christ, in Brattle-Street, Boston, New-England; and published at their general Desire. With Some additional Passages and Quotations. By William Cooper, One of the Pastors of the said Church. With a Preface by the Senior Pastors of Boston, and a Recommendation by some Divines in London.
Cooper, William, 1694-1743.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]