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The art of memory
Our ability to recall facts and experiential detail helps us understand, navigate, and make predictions about the world. Julia Nurse explores some of the techniques we have developed to help us to remember.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
![Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0009762/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0009761/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Palaces and other buildings on the Palatine, Rome: plan. Drawing.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 566664iPart of: Ancient bridges and buildings of Rome and Peru. Drawings, etching and manuscripts.- Books
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A compendious gazetteer; or, pocket companion to the Royal Palaces, Towns, Villages, Villas, and Remarkable Places, within sixteen miles of windsor. Pointing out Whatever is most Remarkable for Antiquity, Grandeur, or Rural Beauty; With Historical and Biograghical Remarks. Illustrated with a map.
Date: [1794]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England; or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, Royal Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the Kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate arts, Cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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England described: or, the traveller's companion. Containing Whatever is curious in the several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns and Villages of Note, in the Kingdom. Including Churches, Palaces, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, British, Roman and Saxon Antiquities, Markets, Fairs, Members of Parliament for each County, City and Borough, &c. To which is added, as an appendix, a brief account of Wales.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Travels through Germany. Containing observations on customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular account of the courts of Mecklenburg. In a series of letters to a friend, by Thomas Nugent, LL. D. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Embellished with elegant cuts of the Palaces and Gardens of the Dukes of Mecklenburg. In two volumes. ...
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]