Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
- Article
Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
The declaration of the true presbyterians within the kingdom of Scotland; Concerning Mr. George Whitefield, and the work at Cambuslang.
Reformed Presbyterian Church.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
- Online
A narrative of the proceedings of seven General Synods of the Northern Presbyterians in Ireland, with relation to their differences in judgment and Practice, from the Year 1720 to to the Year 1726, in which they issu'd in a Synodical Breach: Containing the occasion, Rise, true State, and progress of the differences; Expedients for Peace, offer'd by the Non-Subscribers, and many other Original Papers; Synodical Debates, Overtures, and Decisions; the Conduct of the Parties, since the Breach; with General Observations upon the whole: and, an appendix, in answe to a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A seasonable warning, offer'd by some subscribing ministers in the north, to their congregations, &c. By the Ministers of the Presbytery of Antrim, in the North of Ireland.
Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Synod of Ulster.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
- Online
The querists, or, an extract of sundry passages taken out of Mr. Whitefield's printed sermons, journals and letters: together with, some scruples propos'd in proper queries raised on each remark. By some church-members of the Presbyterian persuasion. [Two lines of quotations]
Date: 1740- Books
- Online
The claims of the clergy to a divine right of maintenance, and of disposing of church-livings, exemplified in the pretensions and conduct of the present Scotch clergy; and in the Behaviour of their Creatures, the Multitude. In a letter from a Scotch Presbyterian, now settled in a Dissenting Congregation in England, to a Minister of the National Church of Scotland. With the Scotch Minister's Answer. Occasioned by the tythe-bill now depending in Parliament.
Scotch Presbyterian.Date: 1736- Books
- Online
The claims of the clergy to a divine right of maintenance, and of disposing of church-livings, exemplified in the pretensions and conduct of the present Scotch clergy; and in the Behaviour of their Creatures, the Multitude. In a letter from a Scotch Presbyterian, now settled in a Dissenting Congregation in England, to a minister of the national Church of Scotland. With the Scotch minister's answer. Occasioned by the Tythe-Bill now depending in Parliament.
Scotch Presbyterian.Date: 1736