Stories
- Article
The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
- Article
It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
A description of some curious and uncommon creatures, omitted in the 'Description of three hundred animals', and likewise in the Supplement to that book; designed as an addition to those two treatises for the entertainment of young people / Compiled by the same hand [T. Boreman] Illustrated with sixteen copper-plates, whereon is neatly engraven the figure of each animal.
Boreman, Thomas, active 18th century.Date: 1739- Books
- Online
[A] description of a great variety of animals and vegetation ... being a supplement to 'A description of three hundred animals' ... 3rd ed. To which is added ... a description of some curious and uncommon creatures / [Anon].
Boreman, Thomas, active 18th centuryDate: 1761- Books
- Online
A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles, and insects / by Mrs. Mary Trimmer.
Date: 1826- Books
- Online
A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles, and insects / By Mrs. Mary Trimmer.
Date: 1830- Books
Observationes practicæ circa luem veneream, epilepsiam et maniam, tria morborum genera in prædicto nosocomio præ aliis maxime obvia. His accedunt casus varii, qui ulteriorem cicutæ usum internum et externum in morbis curatu difficillimis confirmant / Maximiliani Locher.
Locher, Maximilian, active 18th century.Date: 1762