Stories
- Article
There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Vrachebnoe stroenīe vʺ do-Petrovskoĭ Rusi / N. Novombergskīĭ.
Novombergskīĭ, N. (Nikolaĭ), 1871-1949.Date: 1907- Books
The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance / Gordon Campbell.
Campbell, Gordon, 1944-Date: 2003- Books
Union catalogue of printed books of 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories / Giovanna Grassi ; introduction of Paolo Maffei.
Grassi, Giovanna.Date: 1989- Books
The cathedral libraries catalogue : books printed before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / edited by Karen I. James and David J. Shaw.
Date: 1984-- Books
England and the discovery of America, 1481-1620 : from the Bristol voyages of the fifteenth century to the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth: the exploration, exploitation, and trial-and-error colonization of North America by the English / [David Beers Quinn].
Quinn, David B.Date: [1974, ©1973]