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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Serious considerations on plays, games, and other fashionable diversions. Shewing the sinfulness, and dangerous tendency thereof. By John Geere, of Farnham, Surry.
Geere, John.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. A pious meditation, composed in the last century, by that truly benevolent patriot, and Compassionate Friend to the Poor Citizens of Bristol, John Whitson, Esq; Alderman of the said City, and a Member in Several Parliaments. Collected from the Author's Manuscripts. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, collected from authentic records, by George Symes Catcott.
Whitson, John, 1555?-1629.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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An alarm to a careless world. A discourse occasioned by the late earthquakes, preached November 30, 1755, being the First Sunday in advent, at St. Dunstan's in the West. By William Romaine, Lecturer.
Romaine, William, 1714-1795.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The nature of the Christian covenant considered and fairly submitted to the Judgment of the impartial Public. In a discourse on the following text, Gal. v. v. - vi. Intended as a confutation to the pestilential and novel doctrines propagated and taught by certain itinerant missionaries, called Methodists, Who are now dispersing themselves in the most artful Method through this Kingdom, as the Author is advised of, by his Diocesan, the Bishop of Exeter. By the Rev. H. Land, A. M. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Rector of Clare Portion in the Church of Tiverton.
Land, H. (Henry), 1723 or 1724-Date: [1772?]