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 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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Experiments and observations on ferments and fermentation, Addressed to the Literary and philosophical society of Manchester. By Thomas Henry, F.R.S. &c.
Henry, Thomas, 1734-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A medical-philosophical discourse of fermentation, or, Of the intestine motion of particles in every body / by Dr. Thomas Willis ... ; translated into English by S.P.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: MDCLXXXI [1681]- Books
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Zymologia physica, or, A brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur : whereby the phœnomena of all natural hot-baths, the generation of minerals, the production of many acidulæ or spaw-waters, the grand apparances [sic] of heat, fire, and light ... are solv'd from the intestine duellings and inward collisions of the foresaid principles : whereby also various other subterraneal phœnomena ... are from the same doctrine of fermentation genuinely solv'd : with an additional discourse of the sulfur-bath at Knarsbrough / by W. Simpson.
Simpson, William, M.DDate: 1675- Archives and manuscripts
Thomas Willis's Diatribæ Medico-Philosophicæ
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.MSL.130- Books
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An essay on British isinglass: wherein its nature and properties are compared with the foreign sorts; with the best methods of converting them into fining, glue and starch, For the Use of the Brewer, Vintner, Paper-Stainer, &c. Comprehending A succinct Analysis of Isinglass, and Rationale of its Action in clarifying Liquors. Interspersed with Hints for the further Improvement of Malting, Brewing, Fermenting, and for preventing the Wooden Apparatus in the Brewery from speedy Decay. By H. Jackson.
Jackson, Humphrey, approximately 1717-1801.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]