Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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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.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Proposals humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, for raising forty thousand pounds, or upwards, per annum, by laying additional duties on all foreign papers and pastboards imported, and on all sorts of papers, and pastboards, call'd mill'd-boards, made in Great-Britain.
Parker, Richard, paper manufacturer.Date: 1711?]- Books
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The rules and premiums of the Society for the encouragement of agriculture and industry, in the county of Cardigan, for the year 1799. To which are added the names of the subscribing members, with their annual subscriptions, and an account of the adjudged premiums, &c. for the last year.
Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry (Cardiganshire, Wales)Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
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Minutes of evidence relating to the woollen manufactory. Ordered to be printed 1st May 1800.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1800]