Stories
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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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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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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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.
Catalogue
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Agriculture and commerce, a diaglogue. Written in Autumn 1764.
Agriculture, George Andrew Patrick.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The report of the deputies of the Council of Trade, in France, to the Royal Council, Concerning the commerce of that nation to their American islands, Guinea, the Levant, Spain, England, Holland, and the North; the raising the nominal Value of the Coin, and the Effect that has upon Commerce; the Prejudice the Public suffers by Monopolies; the erecting of exclusive Companies; and other chief Points of Trade. In French and English. Now published for the Information of those who are concerned in the Trade and Commerce of the British Islands.
France. Conseil de Commerce.Date: 1744- Books
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Memorials presented, by the deputies of the Council of Trade in France, to the Royal Council, in 1701. being the year after the establishment of the said Council of Trade by King Lewis XIV. Concerning the commerce of that nation to their American Islands, Guinea, the Levant, Spain, England, Holland, and the North; the raising nominally the Value of the Coin, and the Effects that has upon Commerce; the granting of Monopolies; the erecting of exclusive Companies; and other chief Points of Trade. Now first Published. In French and English.
France. Conseil de Commerce.Date: 1737- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 11
Date: October 1902 - January 1903Reference: WF/E/03/11 (Copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd