Stories
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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Correspondence with the War Office re claims for compensation for transport of horses, under War Department Circular No. 1239
Date: Oct 1856-May 1857Reference: RAMC/397/F/CO/5Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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World War One: a mounted Cossack ambulance convoy using horses as stretcher-bearers. Halftone after F. de Haenen, 1916, after a sketch by H. Seppings Wright.
Haenen, F. de (Frédéric de), 1853-1928.Date: 19 February 1916Reference: 24082i- Pictures
Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: episodes, maps of campaigns, portraits of personalities. Album of prints, 188-.
Date: [between 1880 and 1889]Reference: 37410i
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Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
Taylor, D., active 1900.Reference: 23693i- Books
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The gentleman's complete jockey: with the perfect horseman, and experienced farrier. Containing, I. The nature of horses; their Breeding, Feeding and Management in all Paces, to sit them for War, Racing, Travel, Hunting, or other Recreations and Advantages. II. The true Method, with proper Rules and Directions to Order, Diet and Physic the Running Horse, to bring him to any Match or Race, with success. III. The Methods to buy Horses, and prevent being cheated; noting the particular Marks of the good and bad horses, in all their circumstances. IV. How to make Blazes, Stars, and Snips: To fatten a horse with little charge, and to make him lively and lovely. V. The whole Art of a Farrier in curing all Diseases, Griefs and Sorances incident to Horses; with their Symptoms and Causes. VI. The methods of shooing, Blooding, Rowling, Purging, and prevention of Diseases, &c. from long Experience and approved Practice. To which is added, The art of vermine-killing. By A. S. Gent.
A. S.Date: Printed in the Year, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]