Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
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.
- Article
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’.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
VVine, beere, ale, and tobacco. Contending for superiority : A dialogue.
GallobelgicusDate: 1630- Books
- Online
Two dialogues in English, between a doctor of divinity, and a student in the laws of England, of the grounds of the said laws, and of conscience.
Saint German, Christopher, 1460?-1540Date: 1687- Books
- Online
A pleasaunt dialogue, concerning phisicke and phisitions.
Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?Date: 1580- Books
- Online
The schoole of beastes; intituled, the good housholder, or the oeconomickes. Made dialogue-wise, by M. Peter Viret, translated out of French into English, by I.R.
Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571Date: 1585- Books
- Online
A dialogue between a blind man and death.
Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684Date: [1700?]