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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Proposals to raise ten millions and five hundred thousand pounds a year, to which is added, a proposal publish'd in the year 1740, to raise four millions, at 3 per cent. Or, Five hundred and seventy thousand Pounds a Year, To pay off the Money borrowed on the Pot-Act, Soap, Candles, &c. Without any Additional Tax. By an officer of the Stamp-Duties.
Officer of the Stamp-Duties.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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Proposals to raise four millions at 3 per cent. Or, 570,000 pounds a year, to pay off the money borrow'd on the Pot Act, soap, candles, &c. And For paying off the said Four Millions within Eight Years without any additional Tax. And For raising Twenty-Thousand effective Men, that will serve His Majesty without Pay until Great-Britain shall be invaded by Foreigners. By an officer of the Stamp-Duties.
Officer of the Stamp-Duties.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Sir, I am directed by the Honorable Commissioners of His Majesty's Stamp Duties to acquaint you of the repeal of the duties payable on the entries of christenings, marriages, and burials, after the 1st day of October next, and to request you will immediately after that period make out an account, of all arrears then due, and pay the same at my office, in Rochester or to any subdistributor of stamps, in West Kent, nearest you place of residence, for which purpose I inclose you a form to be filled up as usual. ...
Great Britain. Stamp Office.Date: 1794]- Archives and manuscripts
"Notice: Stamp Duties"
Date: 1942Reference: WF/L/03/14Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The stamp duties, compiled from the statutes: with explanatory extracts and useful appendix. Dedicated (by Permission) to the Right Honorable Lord Kenyon. By the compiler of the inventory used at the Stamp Office. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Date: [1790?]