Stories
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Getting around the rules of sex education
What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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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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The royal family described, or; the character of King James I. King Charles I. King Charles II. King James II. With Her late Majesty Queen Anne. Written by the author of The rights of the King and subject briefly stated, &c
Author of the rights of the king and subject briefly stated.Date: Printed in the Year, 1716- Books
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The royal family described, or; the character of King James I. King Charles I. King Charles II. King James II. With the pedegree [sic] of Her late Majesty Queen Anne. Written by the author of The rights of the King and subject briefly stated, &c
Author of The rights of the king and subject briefly stated.Date: 1716- Books
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The Rights of King and subjects briefly stated: or, Considerations about the royal succession, submitted to the Commons of England in Parliament.
Date: 1701]- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings of the Lords of Ireland. In the years 1703 and 1719, in consequence of the attempts made at those periods by the Lords of Great Britain, to enforce their authority in this kingdom. Together With The Representation of the Irish Lords to the King upon that Subject, in which the Independant, Legislative, and Judicial Rights of This Kingdom are ably stated. Which Representation caused the British Parliament to pass the Declaratory Act of the 6th of George The First. Inscribed To the Lords of Parliament and Peers of Ireland. By a friend to the constitutional rights of both kingdoms.
Friend to the constitutional rights of both kingdoms.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies reviewed; the several pleas of the colonies. In support of their right to all the liberties and privileges of British subjects, and to exemption from the legislative authority of Parliament, stated and considered; an the nature of their connection with, and dependence on, Great-Britain, shewn upon the evidence of historical facts and authentic records.
Knox, William, 1732-1810.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]