Stories
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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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.
Catalogue
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Abbeys / by M.R. James ; with an additional chapter on "Monastic life and buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson.
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936.Date: 1926- Books
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Architecture of Solitude : Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England / Peter Fergusson.
Fergusson, Peter, 1934-2022Date: 1984- Books
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The antient and present state of the county of Down. Containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same. Illustrated By Observations made on the Baronies, Parishes, Towns, Villages, Churches, Abbeys, Charter Schools, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Medicinal and other Springs, &c. With a survey of the new canal; as also, A New and Correct map of the County.
Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, Situation, Suburbs, Division by Wards, Walls, Castle, Fairs, Religious Houses, Abbeys, St. Frideswede's, Churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their Monumental Inscriptions; Mayors, Members of Parliament, &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart.
Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A history of the whole realm of Scotland, civil, natural, and ecclesiastical: comprehending an account of all its kings, and remarkable events, with a description of its situation, commodities, distances of towns, &c. Also, Of Cities, Royal Borroughs, Abbeys, Palaces, Forts, Castles, Towns, Roads and Rivers; Together With a List of the Shires, Synods, Presbyteries, Parishes, Royal Family, Nobility, Officers of State, Court of Session, Admiralty, &c. &c. And Likewise, A Description of the Orkneys, and the other Isles, with the Genealogy of the Saxons, Danes, and Normans. With a variety of other curious and interesting particulars, proper to be known and perused by every Scotsman.
Date: 1760