Stories
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
England under the Tudors / by G.R.Elton.
Elton, G. R. (Geoffrey Rudolph)Date: [1962]- Books
England's girls and England's future / by Mary Scharlieb and Barbara Butts.
Scharlieb, Mary (Mary Ann Dacomb Bird), Dame, 1845-1930.Date: 1917- Books
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England, in relation with foreign countries.
Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.Date: [1858?]- Books
England eats out : a social history of eating out in England from 1830 to the present / John Burnett.
Burnett, John, 1925-2006.Date: 2004- Books
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England's black tribunal, or, King Charles's martyrdom.
Date: [1760?]