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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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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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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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Philosophical amusements; or, easy and instructive recreations for young people.
Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826.Date: 1797- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes; containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, by Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; Arithmetical Sports; new Games; Rules for assuredly winning at all Games, whether of Cards or Dice; Recreative Fire-Works; Tricks to promote Diversion in Company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being, ingenious sports and pastimes. Containing, the many curious inventions: pleasant tricks on the cards and dice: Arithmetical Sports: Diverting Experiments, natural and artificial: Recreative Fire-Works: and other curiosities, affording variety of Entertainment. Translated from the French of Mons. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]