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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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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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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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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the most honorable and loyal Society of Ancient Britons, for supporting the charity school, erected in Gray's-Inn-Road, London; with a List of the Governors and Annual Subscribers.
Society of Ancient Britons.Date: 1800- 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]- Books
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A catalogue of pictures, Copied or Multiplied (for Sale) By a chymical and mechanical process; exhibited with The capital originals from which they have been taken, by the Polygraphic Society, At their Rooms, in Pall-Mall, being their eighth exhibition: opened the 4th of April, 1792, As specimens of what the society engage to deliver to Purchasers. - Admittance one Shilling. To continue till further notice, from eleven in the morning till six in the evening. - All Orders addressed by Letter to the Polygraphic Society, as above, will be executed in the same Manner as if the Parties were present. N. B. Catalogues gratis.
Polygraphic Society (London, England)Date: [1792]