Stories
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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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A preservative against popery. Being an easie method of conviction from scripture and reason concerning these three great points: I. Prayers to saints and angels. II. Purgatory and prayers for the dead. III. Real presence and transubstantiation. With an appendix, containing the profession of the Romish faith, and the oath according to the decree of the council of Trent, set forth by Pope Pius IV. By which profession and oath it plainly appears that no popish king can protect a Protestant Church. By Edw. Aspinwall, A.M. sub-dean of His Majesties Chapel, and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Radnor.
Aspinwall, Edward, 1678?-1732.Date: 1718- Books
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Several divine treatises: viz. I. An exhortation against the fears of death. II. A brief declaration of the resurrection of the dead: With suitable Meditations and Prayers, touching Life and Death To which is added a discourse of the four last things; Viz. I. Death, which is most certain; II. Judgment, which is most strict; III. Hell, which is most dismal; IV. Heaven, which is most delightful. With Instructions both to Young and Old, to Prepare themselves for their latter End: And some Necessary Directions to Die Well, in order to avoid Hell, and obtain Heaven. By the late Reverend divine Mr. John Gibbs.
Gibbs, John, 1627?-1699.Date: 1704- Books
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The Ceremonies of the present Jews: Being a short and succinct account of the meats that are clean and unclean to them. Their manner of killing. Their praying at synagogue, and at home, their washing and bathing themselves, their marriage ceremonies, divorce, precepts of the women. Of circumcision. Their proselytes. Synagogues. Schools. Learning. Contracts. Witnesses. Oaths. Vows. Sickness. Death. Burial. Mourning. Prayers for the dead. Belief of resurrection. Paradise. Purgatory. Hell. Of their priests and rabbins. Their manner of keeping the sabbath. Passover. The tabernacles. And all others their feasts and fasts. To which are added, the thirteen articles of their faith, and an account of the sects of the Jews, the Phariseans, Sadduceans, and Esseniens; the Samaritans, Caraites, and Rabbinists.
Date: 1729- Books
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No reason to alter the present liturgy of the church of England, On Account of Prayers for the Dead. By a lay-hand of the non-juring communion.
Hart, Edward, 1672?-Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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A liturgy on the principles of the Christian religion. With services for baptism; the Lord's supper; visitation of the sick; burial of the dead; prayers for a family; and a collection of psalms.
Williams, David, 1738-1816.Date: 1774