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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
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We are the survivors of slow-motion epidemics
Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.
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Befriending heavy breathers
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Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism
Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.
![Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16726492_l0052947.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16726492_l0052946.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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A letter to the Reverend Mr. Dean Swift, Occasion'd by a satire Said to be written by Him, entitled, A Dedication to a Great Man, concerning Dedications. Discovering, among other wonderful Secrets, what will be the present Posture of Affairs a thousand Years hence. By a Sparkish Pamphleteer of Button's Coffee-House
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.Date: 1719- Books
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The horatian canons of friendship. Being the third satire of the first book of Horace imitated. With two Dedications;the First to that Admirable Critic, the Rev. Mr. William Warburton, occasioned by his Dunciad, and his Shakespeare; And the second to my good Friend The Trunk-Maker at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard. By Ebenezer Pentweazle, of Truro in the County of Cornwall, Esq;
Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771.Date: 1750- Books
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A survey of the cathedral church. of Bangor; and the edifices belonging to it. Containing, an account of all the inscriptions on the Monuments and Gravestones: the history of the bishops, deans, and other Dignitaries: Their several Preferments, Times of Decease, Burial, and Epitaphs. Together with a large appendix of records, and other curious Matters relating to Bangor Church and Bishoprick: As namely, The Dedications of all the Churches and Chapels in the Diocess of Bangor; and Descriptions of Clynocfawr Church and Bodowen Chapel. To which is also subjoined several supplementary additions and records to the like history of St. Asaph Cathedral, some time since published: The Dedications of the Churches and Chapels in that Diocess; and descriptions of Gresford and Mould Churches. Collected by Browne Willis, Esq; Illustrated with Draughts of the Ichnography and Upright of Bangor Cathedral, and View of Bodowen Chapel.
Willis, Browne, 1682-1760.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Thesaurus ecclesiasticus provincialis; or, a survey of the diocese of Exeter, respecting all matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and concern: containing an accurate list of the several parish churches and chapels within that diocese, with their respective Dedications, Reprisals, certified and reputed Values, and Augmentations (where they could be procured), Patrons, and present Incumbents. With various other articles, as well of general as of local and particular application. Undertaken and published at the request of the clergy of that diocese.
Date: [1782]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1989-1994Reference: PP/AMS/A.4/2Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)
