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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A synopsis of a course of elocution. By Henry Mcnab.
Macnab, Henry Gray, 1761-1823.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The melody of speaking delineated; or, elocution taught like music, by visible signs, Adapted to the Tones, Inflexions, and Variations of Voice in Reading and Speaking; with Directions for Modulation, and expressing the Passions. Exemplified by select Passages from the best Authors, some of which have not appeared in any of the best Collections. By J. Walker, Author of Elements of Elocution, Rhetorical Grammar, &c.
Walker, John, 1732-1807.Date: 1787- Books
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Elements of elocution. Being the substance of a course of lectures on the art of reading; ... In two volumes. ... By J. Walker, ...
Walker, John, 1732-1807.Date: 1781- Books
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An essay upon pronunciation and gesture, founded upon the best rules and authorities of the ancients, ecclesiastical and civil, and adorned with the finest rules of elocution.
Le Faucheur, Michel, 1585-1657.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The speaker: or, miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. To which is prefixed an essay on elocution. By William Enfield, LL. D. lecturer on the belles lettres in the academy at warrington.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]