Stories
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Chasing spring
Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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Love and friendship: or, the fair fugitive. Exemplified in the histories of two families of distinction, in the West of England; and interspers'd with a variety of characters, and several pleasing and interesting incidents.
Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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Remarks on an anonymous tract, entitled An answer to Dr. Mayhew's Observations on the charter and conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Being a second defence of the Observations (in which the Scheme of sending Bishops to America is particularly considered; and the Inconveniences that might result from it to that Country, if put into Execution, both in civil and religious Respects, are represented. By Jonathan Mayhew, D. D. Pastor of the West Church in Boston.
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765] [1764]- Books
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Eccentric excursions or, literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country, in different parts of England & South Wales. ... Embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints. By G. M. Woodward ...
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 1796 [1797]- Books
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A sermon deliver'd at the South-Church in Boston, New-England, August 14, 1746. being the day of general thanksgiving for the Great Deliverance of the British Nations, by the glorious and happy victory near Culloden. Obtained by His Royal Highness Prince William Duke of Cumberland, April 16, in the same Year. Wherein the Greatness of the Publick Danger and Deliverance is in Part set forth, to excite their most grateful Praises to the God of their Salvation. By Thomas Prince, M. A. And a Pastor of the said Church.
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: 1747- Books
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Architecture of Solitude : Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England / Peter Fergusson.
Fergusson, Peter, 1934-2022Date: 1984