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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 child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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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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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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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy, hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, &c. With their commanders and stations. To which are added the following lists, &c. Establishment of rates and men page 2 Appointment of officers - 2 Pursers superrannuation - 2 Establishment of ships in Ordinary - 2 Contractions explained - - 2 Comparative rank of officers - 2 Widows annual pensions - - 2 Navy-agents - - - - 2 Navy-list, with the pursers 3 to 14 Hired armed vessels, cutt. & lug. 15 Gun and fire vessels - - - 16 Revenue and excise cutters - 16 Naval fencibles - - - 16 Statement of the British Nav. force 17 Total of all captures - 17 Advertisements to correspondents 17 Admirals - - - - 18 Admirals & their secretaries pay page 19 Admirals stations and secretaries 19 Admirals pensions - - - 19 Superannuated admirals - - 19 Post-captains - - - 20 Captains pay, half-pay, superannuation, and pensions - - 21 Commanders - - - 22 Retired lientenants - - 23 Lieutenants - - 23 to 28 Lieuts. pay, half-pay, and pensions 29 Masters - - - - 29 Masters pay, half-pay, superannuations, and pensions - - 30 Physicians and surgeons - page 31 Surgeons pay, half-pay, & bounty 32 Impress service - - - 33 Agent victuallers - - - 33 Governors of Royal Hospitals - 33 Master builders at the different yards 33 Marine forces - - 34 to 36 Signal towers - - - 36 French ships taken, &c. - 37 Dutch ships taken, &c. - 42 Spanish ships taken, &c. - 43 British ships lost, taken, &c. - 44 Prize and head-money payable - 40 Command. who have lost their lives 47 Admiralty, navy, and other public offices - - - - 49 Corrected to March, 1800, and to be continued monthly. Price Sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1800- Books
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A letter to the Right Honourable The earl of Sandwich, on the actual state of the master's mates, midshipmen, inferior officers, and seamen, of his Majesty's navy; their Wives, Children, Executors, and legal Representatives; wherein the Power of the Bishops and Ordinaries, in granting Probates of Wills, and Letters of Administration, is considered: the whole tending to shew that the Statute of the 26 Geo. III. cap. 63, intituled, ̀̀an Act for the further preventing Frauds and Abuses attending the Payment of Wages, Prize-Money, and other Allowances due for the Service of Petty Officers and Seamen, on Board any of his Majesty's Ships,'' is impracticable, and highly injurious. By T. Evans, attorney-at-law.
Evans, Thomas (Attorney-at-law)Date: 1791- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. La Colombe, Jean Joseph Charronier, Master. Robert Heard, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Success, the Captor, - - - - - - - - Appellant. Against Daniel M̀neille, Esq; His Majesty's late Commissary of War for the Island of Minorca, the Claimant, - - - Respondent. Case on behalf of the Respondent.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Appeals in Prize Causes. The Karel den Vyfden, Jean Gaston, Master. John Peter Du Roveray, of London, Merchant, a Subject of our Sovereign Lord the King, the Claimant of the said Ship and Cargo, - - - - Appellant. Against Stephen Casey, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Regulator, the Captor thereof, - - - - - - Respondent. Case on behalf of the Claimant and Appellant.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]