Stories
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From cacao to chocolate
Discover how chocolate morphed from a prized, spiritually significant commodity to a quasi-medicine, and finally to the sweet treat we eat almost daily.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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The case of Great Britain's manufacturers of iron and steel, For Her Majesty's Plantations and Colonies, &c.
Date: 1711?]- Books
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A plan for improving the trade at Senegal. Addressed to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Acts and laws, of His Majesty's colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America.
Rhode Island.Date: M,DCC,XLV. [1745]- Books
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The charter granted by His Majesty King Charles the Second, to the Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence-Plantations, in America.
Rhode Island.Date: 1730- Books
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A bill for establishing the trade to Africa, Free and Open to all Her Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain, and the Plantations.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1713]