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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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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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Memoirs of the Court of England: in the reign of King Charles II. Containing the amours of that Prince, The Duke of Monmouth, Earl of Argyle. - of Buckingham, - of A - n Earl of Oxford - Lord Grey, &c. - St. Albans. In two parts. By the Countess of Dunois, Author of the Ingenious Diverting Letters of The Lady's Travels into Spain. Writ during her residence in that Court. The second edition, corrected. To which is added, The lady's packet of letters, Taken from her by a French Privateer in her Passage to Holland. Suppos'd to be Written by several Men of Quality. Brought over from St. Malo's by an English Officer at the last Exchange of Prisoners.
Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705.Date: 1708- Books
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A testimony of Richard Brothers, in an epistolary address to the people of England, on the Impending Judgments of God; with Original Letters Lately Sent to the Queen, Duke of Cloucester, Earl Fitzwilliam, Mr. Pitt, &c. &c. By G. Coggan, Merchant of Hull.
Coggan, G., active 18th century.Date: [1795]- Books
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Letters to a friend; containing an unanswerable vindication of the Church of England, from the imputation of popery and superstition, and reasons against the repeal of the Test laws Including A Defence of the Parliamentary Speeches of the Right Honourable Frederick Lord North, (now Earl of Guildford) and the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt, for the Continuance of the Test Acts, in Strictures made on a Pamphlet, just published, Against Them, by A Master of Arts, of the University of Oxford. By a chaplain of the navy. In two volumes.
Chaplain of the navy.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Books
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The unfortunate court-favourites of England, exemplified in some remarks upon the lives, actions, and fatal fall of divers great men, who have been Favourites to several English Kings and Queens; namely, I. Pierce Gaveston Earl of Cornwall. II. Hugh Spencer, Earl of Winchester. III. Hugh Spencer the Son, Earl of Glocester. IV. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. V. Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. VI. Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal of York. VII. Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. VIII. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. IX. George Villars, Duke of Buckingham. X. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. with the picture of every monarch and favourite. By R. B.
Crouch, Nathaniel, 1632?-1725?Date: 1706