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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Freind 1616 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1616,being leape yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all of England / by Gabriell Freind.
Date: 1616- Books
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[Almanac].
Date: [1581]- Books
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Goldsmith, 1679. An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1679. Being the third after leap-year, and from the creation, 5628. : Wherein are contained mainly observations, rules and tables both necessary and useful. With a description of the highways, marts and fairs in England and Wales, the like not extant in any other / calculated by John Goldsmith ; to which is added divers [sic] tables and other useful things which have not been in former years.
Goldsmith, John, active 1678-1679Date: 1679- Books
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Waterman: The sea-mans almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord god, 1655 : Being the third from bissextile or leap-year: wherein is contained the hour and minute of full sea or high-water (for every day in the year) at all the chiefest ports in and adjoyning to these three ... (the like not set forth by any other.) Excellent tables for sea-men and others, to finde the hour of the night by the stars without an instrument; with other things of good use. Calculated for the meridian of London by Andrew Waterman mariner.
Waterman, Andrew, marinerDate: 1655- Books
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A faythfull and true pronosticatio[n] vpo[n] the yere .M.CCCCC.xlviii : and parpetually after to the worldes ende gathered out of the prophecies and scriptures of god, by the experience and practise of his workes, very co[m]fortable for all Christen hertes deuyded into seuen chapters. And in the ende ye shal finde an almanack for euer, trtanslated newly out of hye Almayne into english by Myles Couerdale.
Date: [1547?]]