Stories
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How to play on the District line between Stepney Green and Embankment
From the crossword to the smartphone, distractions for the commuter relieve the tedium of crowded, dull journeys. Game designer Holly Gramazio delves into the world of games for trains.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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A sermon preached before the Bristol Marine Society, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, on Tuesday the first of August, 1786, being their annual general meeting. By Thomas Powys, A. M. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and one of the prebendaries of Bristol. Published at the request of the society.
Powys, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of natives of the county of Wilts, in St. Augustine's-Church, Bristol, August XII. M.DCCLXXIX. By Edward Popham, D. D. Rector of Chilton-Foliat, Wilts.
Popham, Edward, approximately 1739-1815.Date: [1779]- Books
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A serious address to the members of the Church of England. By Samuel Seyer, M. A. Rector of St. Michael's, Bristol.
Seyer, Samuel, 1718 or 1719-1776.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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By permission, The genuine trial of Mr. Grant Cottle, for felony. At the Guildhall in the city of Bristol, on Saturday the 6th of April, 1771, before the Right Worshipful Thomas Deane, Esq; mayor; the worshipful John Dunning, Esq; recorder; and other His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, at the general goal delivery for the said city and county: containing the several circumstances relative to the confinement of his aunt, and of her releasement; the robbery committed, and the prisoner's remarkable defence.
Cottle, Grant.Date: [1771]- Books
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An address to the people of Great-Britain in general, the members of Parliament, and the leading gentlemen of opposition in particular, on the present crisis of American politics.
Date: 1776