Stories
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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.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
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Modern matrimony. A satire. To a young nobleman.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
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Of legacy-hunting. The fifth satire of the second book of horace lmitated. A dialogue between Sir Walter Raleigh, and Merlin the prophet. By George Ogle, Esq;
Ogle, George, 1704-1746.Date: 1737- Books
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The Fourth satire of Persius imitated, and much enlarged on, in application to the Right Honourable William Pitt.
Date: 1784- Books
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Woman unmask'd, and dissected; a satire.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]