Stories
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Why we need to decolonise healthcare
In this extract from ‘Divided’, Annabel Sowemimo describes the way her nana’s stroke and hospitalisation heightened her awareness of the need for us all to advocate for the health of others.
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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Devilry and doom in 1666
Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.
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Who was Audrey Amiss?
Elena Carter introduces the vast collection left behind by artist Audrey Amiss, who documented her life in astonishing detail.
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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 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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Royal cookery: or the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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Royal-Cookery: or, the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Pattys, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added, bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: [1716]- Books
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Royal cookery: or, the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies. &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added, bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: 1726