Stories
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Le diable dans un benitier, & la métamorphose du gazetier cuirassé en mouche. Ou tentative du Sieur Receveur, Inspecteur de la Police de Paris, Chevalier de St. Louis; pour établir à Londres une police à l'instar de celle de Paris. Dédié á Monseigneur le Marquis de Castries, Ministre & Secrétaire d' Etat au Département de la Marine, &c. &c. &c. Revú, corrigé & augmenté, par Mr. L'Abbé Aubert, Censeur - Royal. Pa Pierre Le Roux, Ingénieur des Grands Chemins.
La Fitte, Anne-Gédéon, marquis de Pellepore, 1755?-1810?.Date: [1784?]- Books
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The universal masquerade: or, the world turn'd inside-out. Delineating and detecting the virtues and vices of mankind, From The Court to the Cottage, In all Professions, for the benefit of both sexes. Representing, I. A Perspective View of the Court and Courtiers; their Gallantries, Promises, and Entertainments display'd; as Gaming, Intriguing, Balls, Ridotto's and Assemblies. II. City Pride and Luxury; Fraud and Impositions of Vintners, Exchange - Brokers, Discounters, Lottery-Mongers, Insurers, &c. with the Trick practised by a Jew of the Alley on the D-ss of M-lb-b. III. The Foppery of Freemasonry, &c. IV. The Corruption of Magistracy exemplified, in a True Secret History of some Tr-Ing J-st-s, &c. V. Literary Bites; or, The Tricks of Author, Printers and Booksellers: with the Trials of many Criminals in Elysium, &c. VI. The two Temples of True and False Fame; the Pretensions of many Writers; with the Remarkable Receptions of Mr. Pope and Dr. Young. Vii. Fops, Epicures, &c. justly ridicul'd; and the notorious Impositions of Lawyers, Physicians, and Apothecaries detected. Viii. Fornication no Sin; or, Adultery a la Mode, defended in the Case of a First - Rate Keeper and a New-Made C-nt-Ess, &c. IX. A Sketch of the Last Judgment, whereat strict Justice is administred, and many Offenders now first brought to Light. By O. Sedgewick, Gent. ...
Sedgewick, O.Date: 1742- Books
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The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1765