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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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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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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Rules for the general government of the charity schools, instituted by the Methodist Society in West-Street, Seven-Dials, London: with an address to the pious and benevolent of all denominations.
Wesleyan Methodist Church.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Books
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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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Benevolent institution, for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. Sir, the stewards have ordered me to present you their respectful compliments, and to inform you, that the anniversary sermon will be preached on Sunday the 26th day of April 1795, at the Parish Church of Saint Mary, Lambeth, by the Reverend Richard Lloyd, A.M. Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge; ...
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England)Date: 1795]- Books
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Benevolent institution, for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. The most noble the Marquis of Carmarthen, president; the Rt. Hon. Lord Visc. Malden, Sir Robert Barker, bart. The Rt. Hon. Lord Visc. Bulkley, Sir John Smith, bart. vice-presidents. Two sermons, for the benefit of the above charity, will be preached on Sunday, December 26th, 1784, at the Parish Church of Saint Bride, Fleet Street: the one in the morning, by the Rev. Wm. Martin Leake, LL.B. rector of Kencot and vicar of Watlington, Oxon; and morning preacher at the Foundling Hospital: The other inthe afternoon, by the Rev. Richard Cecil, A.B. rector of Cliffe, Sussex; and minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row. Prayers to begion at eleven in the morning, and three in the afternoon.
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England)Date: 1784]- Books
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A practical discourse concerning the great duty of charity. By Richard Crossinge, B. D. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge.
Crossinge, Richard, 1668 or 1669-1734?.Date: 1722