Stories
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Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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Don’t call me a strong Black woman
Her upbringing taught Jaydee Seaforth that she could never show pain or weakness, even when her internal distress was extreme. Find out how she learned to listen to her body.
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The chronological remembrancer. Being an historical register of all the remarkable battles, sieges, Treaties, Conspiracies, Invasions, Massacres, Rebellions, Tryals, Executions, Plagues, Fires, Earthquakes, Comets, Eclipses, Storms, Revolutions, Births, Marriages, Coronations, preferments, deaths, and other memorable occurences, that have happened since the Creation to this Time, throughout the whole world; but more particularly Ireland and England.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The evidences of an over-ruling providence, in Defeating the Conspiracies of Cunning and Ungodly Men, represented in A Sermon Preach'd At Ruthin in the County of Denbigh. At the Assizes held there, Sept. 24. 1722. By Thomas Wynne, A. M. Rector of lanrwst in Denbighshire. Publish'd at the Desire of several Gentlemen then present.
Wynne, Thomas, 1688 or 1689-Date: [1722?]- Books
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The remembrancer: being an historical register of the most remarkable battles sieges treaties Conspiracies Rebellions Massacres Tryals Executions Plagues Fires Earthquakes Comets Eclipses Storms and other memorable occurrences in Great Britain, and even throughout Europe, from William the Conqueror, to the present year 1739. With an alphabetical index for readily finding out the very Day of the Year when they happened; as well as the Births, Marriages, Coronations, Deaths, &c. of the Sovereign Princes.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The church of England, under God, an impregnable bulwark against popery. A sermon preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, With several other Churches in London, And at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich; On Occasion of the Many Deliverances vouchsafed this Church and Nation from Popish Conspiracies; commemorated usually November 5. By Philip Stubbs, M. A. Rector of St. James Garlick-Hythe, First Chaplain of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich; and Arch-Deacon of St. Albans.
Stubs, Philip, 1665-1738.Date: 1716- Books
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An antidote to popery; or the protestant's memory jogg'd in season; by the following narratives and facts. I. The Persecutions of the Protestants in the Reigns of Henry IV. V. Viii. and that of Queen Mary. II. The Irish Martyrology. III. Popish Treasons and Conspiracies in England. IV. Persecutions in France V. Extracts of Letters from Lisbon, by an eminent Minister of the Church of England. VI. A short Account of the most material Errors now Taught in the Church of Rome. By a clergyman of the Church of England.
Clergyman of the Church of England.Date: 1778