Stories
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Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
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The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
Catalogue
- Audio
Servants of the people. Part 1, The general practitioner.
Date: 2004- Books
Servants of Satan : the age of the witch hunts / Joseph Klaits.
Klaits, Joseph.Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
- Online
Servants of Allah : African Muslims enslaved in the Americas / Sylviane A. Diouf.
Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-Date: [1998], ©1998- Digital Images
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Servants bearing funeral offerings. Tomb of VI Dynasty Period, Kasr el Syad, Plate 36.
H.V.S.- Books
Servants of the supernatural : the night side of the Victorian mind / Antonio Melechi.
Melechi, Antonio.Date: 2008