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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum (London, England)Date: Natural History Museum,- Books
Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 3, Zoology / Alwyne Wheeler.
Date: 1986- Books
Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Australia.
Date: 1984- Books
Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 2, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego.
Date: 1987- Books
The early history of palaeontology / by W. N. Edwards.
Edwards, Wilfred Norman, 1897-Date: 1967