Stories
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Being trans in the world of sex work
Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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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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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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The nature and excellency of the duty of alms-giving. A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Gile's in the Fields. Sunday, Nov. 17. 1706. on behalf of the charity-schools settled in that Parish; consisting of Eighty Five Boys, and One Hundred Girls. By Sir William Dawes, Baronet, D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd at the request of the Trustees, for the said Charity-Schools, and others of the Hearers.
Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.Date: 1707- Books
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Regulations for the Charity Work-House, or hospital of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Charity Work-House.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
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An account of the lying-in charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. Instituted 1757.
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An account of the lying-in charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. Instituted 1757.
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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An account of the lying-in charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations, instituted 1757.
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: 1782