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 poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Æsop's fables: With his life, morals, and remarks. Fitted for the meanest capacities. To which are added, five other fables in prose and verse.
Aesop.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Political fables, with proper reflections.
Date: 1721- Books
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æsop's fables with his life morals and remarks. fitted for the meanest capacities.
Aesop.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The learning of the beasts. A fable. For the year 1795.
Jones, William, 1726-1800.Date: 1795]- Books
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Fables, composed for the use of the Duke of Burgundy. By M. Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray. Newly translated from the French by Mr. Elphingston.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]