Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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A dispassionate inquiry into the probable causes and consequences of enthusiasm. A sermon preached July 30, 1798, in the parish church of St. Mary's Reading, at the visitation of the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. By the Rev. Joseph Eyre, M. A. Vicar of St. Giles's, Reading, and of Ambroseden, Oxfordshire.
Eyre, Joseph, 1752 or 1753-1816.Date: [1800]- Books
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The immortal-Mortal. A sermon preached at the triennial visitation of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. By the Reverend Mr. Whatley, Rector of Toft near Lincoln, and Prebendary of York. To which is prefix'd, a new preface, suited to the present most melancholly Occasion.
Whatley, Robert, -1767.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Books
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Ministers of God to approve themselves in all things. A sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of St. Andrew, Plymouth, at the visitation of the Right Reverend John Ross Bishop of the Diocese, On Saturday, August 6, 1785, by Robert Hawker, Vicar of Charles, Plymouth.
Hawker, Robert, 1753-1827.Date: [1785]- Books
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A sermon, preached at the visitation of the clergy at Rumford, before the Bishop of Gloucester, and the worshipful Dr. Wynne, Chancellor, who visited for the Bishop of London, June the first 1782. By the Rev'd William Gould, D.D. F.R.S. and Rector of Stapleford Abbots, Essex.
Gould, William, 1714 or 1715-Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A sermon preached at the visitation held at Stafford, May 5. 1715. By Edmund Ryves, D.D. Rector of Swinnerton, lately Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon. Publish'd at the Request of Mr. Archdeacon and the Clergy.
Ryves, Edmund, 1672 or 1673-1728.Date: [1715]