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 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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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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A new ballad inscriped to polly peachum to the tune of Pretty parrot say, by the author of Leheup's ballad.
Author of Leheup's Ballad.Date: Printed in the Year, 1728- Books
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A new ballad, inscrib'd to Polly Peachum. To the tune of Pretty parrot say. By the author of Leheup's ballad.
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A new ballad inscrib'd to Polly Peachum. To the tune of Pretty parrot say. By the author of Leheup's ballad.
Author of Leheup's Ballad.Date: 1728- Books
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An exellcent [sic] new ballad.
Date: 1717 - 1718]- Books
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Hist: a ballad, inscribed to the Revolution-club, Edinburgh, 3d November, 1747. (To the tune of, a cobler there was, &c.)[.]
Date: 1747]