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.
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Mercury : or the secret and svvift messenger : Shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672Date: 1641- Books
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A discovery of a new world, or, A discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon : with a discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither : unto which is added, A discourse concerning a new planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our Earth is one of the planets : in two parts / by John Wilkins.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672Date: 1684- Books
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A treatise on the art of decyphering, and of writing in cypher. With an harmonic alphabet.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: 1772- Books
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An essay on the art of decyphering. In which is inserted a discourse of Dr. Wallis. Now first publish'd from his original manuscript in the publick library at Oxford. By John Davys, M. A. Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire.
Davys, John, 1678-1724.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Sermo mirabilis: or the silent language : Whereby one may learn perfectly in the space of six hours, how to impart his mind to his friend in any language, English, Latin, French, Dutch, &c. tho never so deep and dangerous a secret, without the least noise, word or voice; and without the knowledge of any in company. Being a wonderful art kept secret for several ages, in Padua, and now published only to the wise and prudent, who will not expose it, as a prostitute, to every foolish and ignorant fellow. / By Monsieur La Fin, once secretary to his eminence, the Cardinal of Richlieu. Licensed and entred according to order.
La Fin, Charles deDate: 1692