Stories
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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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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Celebrating our soft toys
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Services
Date: 1980 - 1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/7/3/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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An Act for permitting the exportation of wooll, and woollen or bay yarn, from any port in Ireland, to any port in Great Britain.
Great Britain.Date: 1753]- Books
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An Act for permitting tea to be exported to Ireland, and His Majesty's plantations in America, without paying the inland duties charged thereupon by an Act of the eighteenth year of His present Majesty's reign; and for enlarging the time for some of the payments to be made on the subscription of six millions three hundred thousand pounds, by virtue of an Act of this session of Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1748]- Books
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An Act for reducing the number of directors of the corporation of the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas, and other parts of America; and for encouraging the fishery; and for regulating the election of the governors and directors of the said company.
Great Britain.Date: 1753]- Books
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An Act for repairing the Post Road from the city of Edinburgh, through the counties of Linlithgow and Sterling, from the Boathouse Ford, on Almond Water, and from thence to the town of Linlithgow, and from the said town to Falkirk, and from thence to Sterling; and also from Falkirk to Kilsyth, and to Inch Bellie Bridge, on the Post Road to the city of Glasgow.
Great Britain.Date: 1752]