Stories
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
Jackson - Knutsford
Date: late 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/B.39Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)- Books
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The irish spelling-book; or, instruction for the reading of English, fitted for the youth of Ireland. In which are set forth many useful observations in spelling, alterations, and amendments in the sounds of letters, both single and double; exact formations of both sorts by the several organs of voice; - a discourse on prosody: a large chapter about various quantities of vowels, change, and loss of letters and syllables in pronunciation; - rules for the right reading of prose and verse; - a new method of parsing, according to orthography and prosody; - a method of teaching, useful both to scholars and their teachers; - and many other necessary things, interspersed in each part of the book.
Date: 1740- Archives and manuscripts
Holdsworth, Edward (1684-1746)
Holdsworth, Edward, 1684-1746Date: c. 1733-1736Reference: MS.7948/4Part of: Miscellany: British 18th, 19th century- Pictures
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The interior of the Dublin Exhibition Palace, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1865, after A.G. Jones.
Hodgkin, W. E., active 1853-1879.Date: 22 April 1865Reference: 16877i