Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Petit Family, France, 17th-18th centuries
Date: 18th-19th centuryReference: MS.7399- Books
A study of the interior faces and other characteristics of forceps and root elevators from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries / Pedro Borja de Guzman.
Borja de Guzman, Pedro.Date: 1985- Books
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The case of Mr. Robert Allen, native of Scotland, who was found on board the St. a Cruize Galleon, taken by Her Majesties squadron under the command of Sir Charles Wager, in May, 1708.
Allen, Robert, 17th/18th cent.Date: 1708?]- Archives and manuscripts
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MS.9317
Date: c.17th-18th century- Books
He shi xu lao xin chuan / He Xuan zhu ; He Shixi jiao ji.
He, Xuan, active 17th/18th century.Date: 1984