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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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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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 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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A dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer, on the present high price of provisions of all kinds; wherein it is set forth how the present scarcity arose, and how it may be in future prevented. By a friend to his country.
Friend to his country.Date: [1795?]- Books
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A Dialogue betwixt moderation and constitution.
Date: 1714]- Books
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A Dialogue between honest John and loving Kate, with their contrivances for marriage, and way to get a livelihood. Part the first.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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A Dialogue between honest John and loving Kate; with their contrivances for marriage [and] way to get a livelihood. Part the first.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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The poor man's cry for pity, from magistrates power & ministerial care: in a dialogue betwixt a godly farmer and a poor man.
Date: 1800?]