Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A discourse delivered in one of the Catholic chapels, on the propriety and necessity of taking the oath of allegiance tendered by government.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The lawfulness and obligation of the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, shewn in a discourse betwixt a minister and a gentleman, his parishioner. Publish'd for the Satisfaction of all those, who by a late Act of Parliament are requir'd to take the said Oaths, or else to Register their Names and Estates. By a lover of truth and peace.
Lover of truth and peace.Date: [1723]- Books
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A letter concerning allegiance, Written by the Lord Bishop of L----n, to a clergy-man in Essex, Presently after the revolution. Never before Publish'd. To which are added Some queries, occasion'd by the late address of his Lordship and the clergy of London and Westminster.
Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.Date: 1710- Books
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Mémoire et lettres Adressées à sa Majesté louis XV. & à son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le Comte de la Marche, & à monseigneur le Chancelier, Précédés d'une introduction; par le sieur Allegier de Vassol.
Allegier de Vassol, Sieur.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The Plea of publick good not sufficient to justifie the taking up arms against our rightful and lawful sovereigns. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. Hoadly.
Date: 1706