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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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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Principles of taxation. By William Frend.
Frend, William, 1757-1841.Date: 1799- Books
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An appendix to the Inquiry concerning the principles of taxation; consisting of supplementary notes and illustrations.
Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.Date: 1790]- Books
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Fellow citizens, Lord John Townshend's friends have falsely asserted, that Lord Hood was a friend to the shop tax. - Will you support the men who endeavour to impose upon your understandings by a deliberate falshood? ...
Date: 1788]- Books
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A letter to the Right Honourable Lord North, first lord of the treasury; recommending a new mode of taxation; thro' which vice may be checked, and the poor be relieved.
Cincinnatus, active 1770.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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These are to give notice, that the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in pursuance of the power and authority to them given by his Highnesse Council in Scotland for the government thereof : have resolved, that the excise of beer, ale, and aquavitæ in the several shires in Scotland (the burghs therein included) be let to farm upon the respective dayes following, at the office in Leith.
Scotland. Commissioners of ExciseDate: [1656]