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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 poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Murrels tvvo books of cookerie and carving.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1638- Books
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The good hous-wiues treasurie : Beeing a verye necessarie booke instructing to the dressing of meates. Hereunto is also annexed sundrie holsome medicines for diuers diseases.
Date: 1588- Books
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Murrels tvvo books of cookerie and carving.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1641- Books
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Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, pickling, potting, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries. With an essay upon the lady's art of cookery: together with a plan of house-keeping. By Ann Cook, Teacher of the True Art of Cookery.
Cook, Ann, Writer on Cookery.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: [1675]