Stories
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What is violence?
Criminologist Laura Bui explores her early understanding of violence and outlines its definition and wider consequences.
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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 pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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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.
Catalogue
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Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
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A practical essay on the venereal disease. To which are subjoined observations on the causes and cure of tabes dorsalis. By J. Smyth, M.D.
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton).Date: 1798- Books
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Essays on different subjects. By Thomas Barnardiston, serjeant at law.
Barnardiston, Thomas, 1706-1752.Date: [1740?]- Books
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Essays, political, economical, and philosophical. By Benjamin count of Rumford, knight of the orders of the White Eagle, and St. Stanislaus; chamberlain, privy counsellor of state, and lieutenant-general in the service of his most serene highness the elector Palatine, reigning Duke of Bavaria; colonel of his regiment of Artillery, and commander in chief of the general staff of his army; F.R.S. Acad. R. Hiber. Berol. elec. Boicœ. palat. et amer. soc.
Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814.Date: 1797- Books
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The Polite preceptor: or, A collection of entertaining and instructive essays; Selected from the best English writers, and arranged in the most natural order; with a view to inspire into the minds of youth the love of virtue, and the principles of true taste and just reasoning.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]