Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The mayor, sheriffs, free-burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Galway, - - appellants. Henry Russell, Esq; - - - respondent. The appellants case.
Galway (Ireland : City)Date: 1721]- Books
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Henry Pippard, Esquire, - - - - - appellant. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses, and commons, of the town of Drogheda, William Godley, Benjamin Woodward, and Isaac Holroyde, Heirs at law of William Elwood, deceased, - - - - - - - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Drogheda (Ireland)Date: 1759]- Books
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House of Lords. The Right Honourable Alexander Lord M̀donald, of the Kingdom of Ireland, - Appellant. Lieutenant Colonel Norman Macleod, of Macleod, - - - - - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Macleod, Norman, 1754-1801.Date: 1781]- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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John Winckworth, Esquire - - - - appellant. Mark Anthony Najack, Esquire - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Najack, Mark Anthony.Date: 1728]