Stories
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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[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
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The gigantick history, volume the second. Which completes the history of Guildhall, London. With other curious matters.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: 1741- Books
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A true and exact particular and inventory of all and singular the estate and effects whatsoever, of Thomas Warren, Which he was seized or possessed of, or intitled unto in his own Right, and which any other Person or Persons was or were seized or possessed of or in Trust for him, or to or for his Use or Benefit, upon the First Day of January, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty, or at any Time after, &c.
Warren, Thomas, active 18th century.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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A true and exact particular and inventory of all and singular the estate and effects whatsoever, of Thomas Warren, Which he was seized or possessed of, or intitled unto in his own Right, and which any other Person or Persons was or were seized or possessed of or in Trust for him, or to or for his Use or Benefit, upon the First Day of January, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty, or at any Time after, &c.
Warren, Thomas, active 18th century.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]