Stories
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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A catalogue of forest-trees, fruit-trees, ever-green and flowering-shrubs, Sold by William and John Perfect, nurserymen and seedsmen, in pontefract, Yorkshire.
William and John Perfect (Firm)Date: 1781- Books
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A catalogue of forest-trees, fruit-trees, ever-green and flowering-shrubs sold by William and John Perfect, nursery-men and seeds-men, in Pontefract, Yorkshire. 17[blank].
William and John Perfect (Firm)Date: [1776?]- Books
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Annals of insanity, comprising a variety of select cases in the different species of insanity, lunacy, or madness, with the modes of practice, as adopted in the treatment of each / By William Perfect.
Perfect, William, 1737-1809.Date: 1801- Books
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England's black tribunal. Set forth in the tryal of King Charles I. By the pretended High Court of Justice in Westminster-Hall, Jan 20. 1648. Together with His Majesties Speech, on the Scaffold Erected at White-Hall-Gate, Tuesday, Jan. 30. 1648. Also a Perfect Relation of the Sufferings, and Death of divers of the Nobility and Centry, who were Inhumanly Murther'd for their Constant Loyalty to their Sovereign Lord the King Together with their several Dying Speeches: From the Year 1642 to 1658. viz. Earl of Strafford. Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Duke Hamilton. Earl of Holland. Arthur Lord Capel. James Earl of Derby. Marquess of Montross. Col. William Sybbald. Col. Eusebius Andrews. Col. John Penruddock. Col. Gerrard. Sir Henry Hyde. Sir Henry Slingsby. Col. John Morris. Cor. Blackburne. Cor. Hugh Grove. Dr. John Hewyt. The fourth edition. To which is added, an historical preface, by a true churchman.
Date: 1703- Books
A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing The vvhole Body of Physick: Discovering The Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials Galenical and Chymical. Together with a most Perfect and Absolute Pharmacopoea or Apothecaries Shop. Accommodated with three useful Tables, / Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson.
Renou, Jean de, 1568-1620.Date: 1657