Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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The soldiers humble address for the impeachment of the late M-y. By the Author of the History of the Crown Inn.
Author of the History of the Crown Inn.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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The ambitious step-mother. A tragedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties servants. Written by N. Rowe, Esq; Author of Tamerlane.
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.Date: 1702- Books
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The ambitious step-mother. A tragedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties servants. Written by N. Rowe, Esq; Author of Tamerlane.
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.Date: 1702- Books
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Telliamed: or, discourses between an Indian philosopher and a French missionary, on the diminution of the sea, the formation of the earth, the origin of men and animals, And other Curious Subjects, relating to Natural History and Philosophy. Being a translation from the French original of Mr. Maillet, Author of the Description of Egypt.
Maillet, Benoı̂t de, 1656-1738.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Historia placitorum coronae. The history of the pleas of the Crown. By Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. Published from the original manuscripts by Sollom Emlyn, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. With additional notes and references to modern cases concerning the pleas of the Crown. By George Wilson, Serjeant at Law. A new edition. And an abridgment of the statutes relating to felonies continued to the present time, with notes and references, by Thomas Dogherty, Esq. of Clifford's-Inn. In two volumes. ...
Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676.Date: 1800
