Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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The works of M. de La Bruyere. In two volumes. To which is added the characters of Theophrastus. Also The manner of living with great men; ... By N. Rowe, Esq. ...
La Bruyère, Jean de.Date: 1776- Books
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The characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek, by Eustace Budgell, Esq;
Theophrastus.Date: 1718- Books
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Sketches of the characters of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, and James Mingay, Esq. interspersed with anecdotes and professional strictures.
Date: 1794- Books
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Imitations of the characters of Theophrastus.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A legacy for the ladies or, Characters of the women of the age. By the late ingenious Mr. Thomas Brown. With a comical view of London and Westminster: or, The merry quack; wherein physick is rectified for both the beaus and ladies. In two parts. The first part by Mr. Tho. Brown: the second part by Mr. Edw. Ward, author of the London-Spy, &c. To which is prefixt, the character of Mr. Tho. Brown, and his writings, written by Dr. Drake.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1705