Stories
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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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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Address to the burgesses inhabitants of Edinburgh: Observing the defects of the old sett; and proposing the plan of a bill to Parliament, for an act to restore and establish a Town-Council and Magistracy for the city, and to ascertain the right and manner of electing its Member to Parliament. In which, and notes on it, are observed, some particulars concerning the laws now in force relative to burrow-elections, worthy (perhaps) of the consideration of all the Royal Burghs of Scotland in general, and of the city of Edinburgh (tho' it was to have no new sett) in particular. Occasioned by some things dropt in a letter by Edinus at Berwick to his friend at Newcastle.
Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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Answers for the Lord Provost, magistrates, and town-council of the city of Edinburgh; to the petition of Robert Gardiner, late commissary to the army in Scotland.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1766]
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The Universities (Scotland) Bill : a letter to the Lord Provost, magistrates and town council of the city of Edinburgh / by James Colston.
Date: 1883- Books
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Instructions by the magistrates and town council of the burgh of Lauder, to their commissioner in Parliament, in relation to the union proposed betwixt the kingdoms of Scotland and England.
Lauder (Scotland)Date: 1706]- Books
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The king's pious proclamation, for encouragement of piety and vertue, and for Suppressing and Punishing of Vice, Profaneness and Immorality; with an abbreviate of the laws to that purpose. As also, a collection of some acts of the General Assembly of the church of Scotland, town-council of Edinburgh, and kirk-sessions of that city, to the same effect.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXVII. [1727]