Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.

A Protestant man and woman interrupted while reading the forbidden Bible. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after K. Ooms.

The method by which the Jansenist weekly newspaper Les nouvelles ecclésiastiques was distributed in order to evade the interdictions of the French government, 1727. Etching by Aubry, 1790.

The books of rituals compiled by Numa Pompilius being handed over to the people. Etching by G.B. Galestruzzi after Polidoro da Caravaggio.

C14 Chinese medication chart: Convulsions etc.

Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: The Yellow Emperor

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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

Virtual reality and the fix of the future

Booze and bad behaviour

By the King : a proclamation commanding the due execution of the lawes made against eating and selling of flesh in Lent, and other times prohibited.

Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, why stock-fish and live eels should be imported into England : Notwithstanding the same being at present prohibited by the act, which prohibits the importation of Irish cattle and forreign fish.

Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.

Tuesday, September 20. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that all masters and governors of hospitals be, and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any leases of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitals, until this House take further order.

A catalogue of curious but prohibited books, &c. chiefly modern: being the collection of a very eminent statesman, an Officer in the Customs, well known to the present Great Political World. Now upon sale to the best bidder. For the benefit of George Briton, a poor fatherless orphan.

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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

Virtual reality and the fix of the future

Booze and bad behaviour

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By the King : a proclamation commanding the due execution of the lawes made against eating and selling of flesh in Lent, and other times prohibited.

Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, why stock-fish and live eels should be imported into England : Notwithstanding the same being at present prohibited by the act, which prohibits the importation of Irish cattle and forreign fish.

Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.

Tuesday, September 20. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that all masters and governors of hospitals be, and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any leases of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitals, until this House take further order.

A catalogue of curious but prohibited books, &c. chiefly modern: being the collection of a very eminent statesman, an Officer in the Customs, well known to the present Great Political World. Now upon sale to the best bidder. For the benefit of George Briton, a poor fatherless orphan.

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Stories

Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

Virtual reality and the fix of the future

Booze and bad behaviour

Images

Catalogue

By the King : a proclamation commanding the due execution of the lawes made against eating and selling of flesh in Lent, and other times prohibited.

Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, why stock-fish and live eels should be imported into England : Notwithstanding the same being at present prohibited by the act, which prohibits the importation of Irish cattle and forreign fish.

Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.

Tuesday, September 20. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that all masters and governors of hospitals be, and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any leases of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitals, until this House take further order.

A catalogue of curious but prohibited books, &c. chiefly modern: being the collection of a very eminent statesman, an Officer in the Customs, well known to the present Great Political World. Now upon sale to the best bidder. For the benefit of George Briton, a poor fatherless orphan.