Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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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.
Catalogue
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Late 17th- to 19th-century burial and earlier occupation at All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea / Robert Cowie, Jelena Bekvalac and Tania Kausmally.
Cowie, RobertDate: [2008]- Archives and manuscripts
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[Archaeology] 'London excavations'
Date: 1980-1982Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.4/5Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
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'London University - Institute of Archaeology'
Date: 1957/1983Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Ret/B.23Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
The Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London / Ian Grainger, Duncan Hawkins, Lynne Cowal and Richard Mikulski.
Grainger, IanDate: [2008]- Books
The Augustinian priory of St. Mary Merton, Surrey : excavations 1976-90 / Pat Miller and David Saxby.
Miller, Pat, 1959-Date: [2007]