Stories
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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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 father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
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Joseph LeConte, gentle prophet of evolution / Lester D. Stephens.
Stephens, Lester D.Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
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The temple rent in twain; and reared up in three days. [Two lines from John] By Joseph Stephens.
Stephens, Joseph.Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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Life of Joseph Jordan, surgeon : and an account of the rise and progress of medical schools in Manchester, with some particulars of the life of Dr. Edward Stephens / by F.W. Jordan.
Jordan, F. W. (Frederick William), -1910.Date: 1904- Books
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Life of Joseph Jordan, surgeon, and an account of the rise and progress of medical schools in Manchester, with some particulars of the life of Dr. Edward Stephens / by F.W. Jordan.
Jordan, Frederick William.Date: 1904- Books
The Christian puranna of Father Thomas Stephens of the Society of Jesus : a work of the 17th century / reproduced from manuscript copies and edited with a biographical note, an introd., an English synopsis of contents and a vocabulary by Joseph L. Saldanha.
Stephens, Thomas, 1549-1619.Date: 1907