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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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Gun. Lost this morning a gun, silver-mounted, gold pan and touch-hole, maker's name "Jover, Long-Acre;" it is a half-stock gun with I B in a cypher, and a whalebone ram-rod. Whoever will bring it to Mr. Willmot Duckett's farm, or Mr. Bannister, Red Lion, Tottenham, shall have one guinea reward.
Duckett, Willmot.Date: 1784]- Books
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A description of double shot fire-arms. By John Aitken, M.D.
Aitken, John, -1790.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A dissertation on the errors of marksmen and gunmakers, and a tract upon the art of shooting flying with an essay On pointers and flushers, and remarks Upon riffle guns and Methods of Shooting with them. By that most able Park and Game-Keeper and famous Marksman, Mr. Lemon.
Lemon, Mr., active 1782.Date: [1782]- Books
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An alphabetical list of the names of all such persons of the popish religion within the Kingdom of Ireland, who have licenses to carry arms.
Ireland. Privy Council.Date: 1713- Books
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An alphabetical list of the names of all such persons of the popish religion within the Kingdom of Ireland, who have licences to bear or carry arms.
Ireland. Privy Council.Date: 1705