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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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When you can’t return home
Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.
Catalogue
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Fortune-telling by the casting of dice : a Middle English poem and its background / edited by W.L. Braekman.
Date: 1981- Archives and manuscripts
Fortune-Telling
Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.2413- Archives and manuscripts
Fortune-Telling
Date: Middle 16th centuryReference: MS.277
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Thai Astronomical manuscripts on fortune telling
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The ragged uproar: Or, The Oxford roratory: a new dramatic satire; in many scenes, and one very long act. In which is introduced, the A-la-mode system of Fortune-telling. Originally plann'd by Joahn Plotwell; and continued by several truly eminent hands, well vers'd in the art of designing. The whole concluding with an important scene of witches, gypies, and fortune-tellers; a long jumbling dance of politicians; and an epilogue spoken by Mary Squires, &c. flying on broom-sticks.
Plotwell, Joan.Date: [1754]