Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
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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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Alcoholism: (above) degrading consequences of alcohol in ancient times; (below) a temperance restaurant in modern times. Colour lithograph attributed to Paul-Emile Colin, ca. 1900.
Colin, Paul-Emile, 1867-1949.Date: [1900?]Reference: 543167iPart of: Muebles y material para la enseñanza- Books
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Temperance Kirby spinster, executrix of ... Dame Jane Ormisby, ... appellant. Gilbert Ormisby Esq; respondent. The appellant's case:
Kirby, Temperance.Date: 1701]- Books
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Temperance Kirby, executrix of Dame Jane Ormsby. Appellant. Appeal from the Exchequer of Ireland. Gilbert Ormsby Esq; Respondent. The respondent's case.
Ormsby, Gilbert.Date: 1701]- Books
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The scourge of drunkennes. By William Hornby Gent.
Hornby, WilliamDate: 1618- Books
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[The scourge of drunkennes.].
Hornby, WilliamDate: [1619]