Stories
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
- In pictures
A visual history of cancer
Cancer has a reputation as a modern disease, but these historical images show that it’s been part of our lives for centuries.
- In pictures
The death-defying science of the aeronauts
Air ballooning is not as serene as you might think. Read about the perilous exploits of two early aeronauts who risked life and limb to better understand the science of the weather.
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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.
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The tragical history of the babes in the wood, whose father, a rich gentleman in Norfolk, when dying, committed to the guardianship of his own brother. - But this cruel and unnatural Wretch, in order to possess himself of their Fortunes, caused the Children to be destroyed soon after their Father's Death. - He is punished for his Perfidy, in the most exemplary Manner, by Divine Justice, as set forth in the Sequel.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A Brief History of Death.
Davies, J. D. G. (J. Douglas G.)Date: 2007- Books
The story of medicine : from the Black Death to Florence Nightingale / from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
Date: 2017- Books
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Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.
Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.Date: 1789- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 41. 'History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2011Reference: GC/253/A/41Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars