Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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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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Eight sets of queries, submitted, with an unusual degree of humility, to the nobility, lairds, fine gentlemen, fine ladies, tenants, merchants, manufacturers, clergy, and people of Scotland, upon the subject of wool and of the woolen manufacture. By a peer of the realm.
Elibank, Patrick Murray, Baron, 1703-1778.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Curious and entertaining letters concerning the trade and manufactures of Scotland; particularly the woolen and linen manufactures. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of all Gentlemen, Merchants, and others, Concerned in Trade and Manufacture within this antient Kingdom. With curious observations on some political schemes, transmitted to the Author by several Gentlemen. Likeways, a plan to the public, in order to reduce the prices of all the necessaries of life. Third edition: with large and entertaining additions. By David Loch, merchant.
Loch, David, -1780.Date: MDCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The true Caledonian, addressed to the people of Scotland, containing an examination of the arguments advanced against the woollen-manufactures of this kingdom, in a late book, intituled The interest of Scotland considered, &c. Together with A Scheme for promoting our Woollen-Manufactures. By Thomas Melvill Weaver.
Melvill, Thomas.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 22
Date: September 1904 - March 1906Reference: WF/E/03/22Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Medicine through time.
Date: 1998