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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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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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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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A- Books
Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- 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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Some considerations humbly offer'd to the Honourable the House of Commons, by the tallow-chandlers in and about the cities of London and Westminster.
Company of Tallow-Chandlers (London, England)Date: 1695 - 1711]- Books
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The poll for Members of Parliament, for the city and county of Norwich, taken the twenty-fifth of May, 1796. (the Parishes and Names of the Voters alphabetically arranged, and carefully copied from the Original Poll Books) Candidates the Hon. Henry Hobart, of Intwood - - - - - - - - - - - - 1622 The Right Hon. William Windham, of Felbrigg 1159 Bartlett Gurney, of Norwich, Esq. - - - - - - - - - 1076 Edward Coleman, Esq. Peter Chamberlin, Esq. Sheriffs and Returning Officers. By Permission of the Sheriffs.
Norwich (England)Date: [1796]