Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Cooking; or, Practical and economical training for those who are to be servants, wives and mothers : management of the kitchen, plain cooking, breadmaking, baking, brewing, pickling, etc. Prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: 1849
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Household work; or, the duties of female servants. Practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid : with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department / prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: 1850
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Household work; or, The duties of female servants : practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid: with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department; prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Books
Young school leavers : report of a survey among young people, parents, and teachers / by Roma Morton-Williams and Stewart Finch ; Government Social Survey.
Morton-Williams, Roma.Date: 1968- Books
Streaming in the primary school : a longitudinal study of children in streamed and non-streamed junior schools / by Joan C. Barker Lunn.
Barker Lunn, Joan C.Date: 1970