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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The Flax-husbandman and flax-dresser instructed: Or, The best methods of flax-husbandry and flax-dressing explained, in several letters, by the gentlemen of the Dublin Society.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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New methods of improving flax and flax-seed and bleaching cloath. By Thomas Turner.
Turner, Thomas, active 1715.Date: 1715- Books
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Observations upon the cultivation of flax and flax-seed in Scotland. By a Farmer.
Farmer.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Directions for raising flax. Published by order of the Commissioners and trustees for fisheries, manufactures, and improvements, in Scotland. For the benefit of the Country. Made out by some of the Trustees Officers, of great practice and experience in Flax-Raising.
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: [1763]- Books
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Instructions for cultivating and raising flax. Collected from the best papers hitherto publish'd on the subject; and enlarged, by H----- W-----, of Waterford.
H. W., of Waterford.Date: [1750?]