Stories
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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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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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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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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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Pro-quiritatio parainetike, or, A petition to the people : for a Christian and unbloudy decision of cases of conscience, in the point of obedience unto the deputed of the Lord; as disturb the peace, and threaten the ruine of this church and state. Humbly directed unto the whole-one English and Welsh nation.
Date: Anno Dom. 1642- Books
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Pro-qviritatio parainetike, or, A petition to the people for a Christian and unbloudy decision of cases of conscience : in the point of obedience unto the deputed of the Lord, as disturb the peace, and threaten the ruine of this church and state : humbly directed unto the whole-one English and Welsh nation.
Date: 1642- Books
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The English Catholike Christian, or, The saints utopia / by Thomas de Eschallers de la More, an unprofitable servant of Jesus Christ: of Graies-Inne barrister, and minister of the Gospel of eternall salvation. In the yeer of grace and truth, 1640. A treatise consisting of four sections. 1 Josuah's resolution. 2 Of the common law. 3 Of physick. 4 Of divinity.
More, Thomas, -1685Date: 1649- Books
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The philosophers banquet : Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many seuerall dishes, that in the former seruice were neglected. Where now not onely meats and drinks of all natures and kindes are serued in, but the natures and kindes of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration, and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effectes and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. The second edition, newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.
Date: 1614- Books
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Syzygiasticon instauratum: or, An almanack & ephemeris for the year of our Lord God, 1654 : Being the second after leap year, and from the creation, 5603. Wherein is contained, the motions, and aspects of the planets related to the Sun as center of the world. With astrologicall judgements of the many wonderfull mutations likely to happen this and the ensuing year. A brief discourse of the late comet. And a demonstration of the motions of the planets. Also, probable predictions of the daily state of the weather. Calculated for the meridian of London, and may serve for every part of this Common-wealth: / By Richard Fitzsmith philomath.
Fitzsmith, RichardDate: 1654