Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The sweet sound of synthetic speech
After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
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The Reynolds Historical Library and the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences : a resource of national prominence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham background and plan for development / University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Reynolds Historical Library.Date: [1990?]- Books
The Reynolds historical lectures, 1980-1991 : twelve years of contributions to the history of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham / edited by Marion G. McGuinn.
Date: 1993- Books
Handlist of the papers of Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 1851-1940, principal of Birmingham University, 1900-1919 / [University of Birmingham Library].
University of Birmingham. Library.Date: 1979- Books
An exhibition in connection with the bicentenary celebrations of the Lunar Society of Birmingham held in collaboration with the Birmingham Reference Library [at Birmingham University.].
Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)Date: 1966- Books
Catalogue of the historical books deposited in the University of Birmingham Library.
Birmingham Medical Institute.Date: 1986