Stories
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The Key to Memory: Mark it out
Sarah Bentley explores what a papier-mâché figure from Japan can tell us about how and why we remember.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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Challenging stereotypes of people with learning disabilities
Explore the voices and photographs of people with and without learning disabilities who have worked with creative arts company Heart n Soul over the last 30 years.
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Written on my body
Scars mean David Jesudason has never enjoyed seeing his reflection. Recounting the stories behind the marks on his face and body, he finds the only one that symbolises hope and happiness.
Catalogue
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What should you know about head lice? : there's a simple answer with Full Marks lotion / Consumer Products Division, Napp Laboratories Ltd.
Napp Laboratories. Consumer Products Division.Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
"Famous British Trade-Marks"
Date: 1909-1910Reference: WF/L/06/091Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Cheiro's language of the hand : a complete practical work on the sciences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, containing the system, rules, and experience of Cheiro (Count de Hamong) [pseud.] Fifty-five full-page illustrations, and over two hundred engravings of lines, mounts, and marks; drawings of the seven types / by Theo Doré; reproductions of famous hands, also normal and abnormal hands taken from life.
Cheiro, 1866-1936.Date: [1897], ©1897]- Archives and manuscripts
Grant of the dignity of an additional member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, 1943, and notice re full membership, 1946
Date: 1946Reference: RAMC/1924/16Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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The complete pigeon-fancier, or, a new treatise on domestic pigeons. Containing the most valuable Information concerning the Nature, Properties, and Management of all their various Species, under the following Heads; 1. An useful, comprehensive, and entertaining Natural History of Pigeons. 2. Full and ample Directions for Building a Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote. 3. Plain and necessary Instructions for stocking and managing the Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote, with a particular Account of those Pigeons which are most advantageous for that Purpose; and an Abstract of the Laws now in Force relating to Pigeons. 4. Account of the best Methods now in Practice, for preventing Pigeons from leaving their Habitations. 5. An accurate and just Description of all the valuable Species of Fancy Birds and Toys now bred in England, France, and Holland; their foul Marks pointed out, and their real Perfections clearly displayed, particularly Powters Carriers Horsemen Dragoons Croppers Powting Horsemen Uplopers Fantails Chinese Pigeon Lace ditto Tumblers Runts Spots Laughters Trumpeters Jacobines Capuchins Nuns Shakers Helmets Ruffs Finnikins Turners Barbs Mahomets Turbits Owls Smiters, &c. 6. Rules necessary to be observed in distinguishing the Sexes, particularly of young Pigeons. 7. Useful Particulars relative to coupling or matching of Pigeons. 8. A copious Account of the most elegible Methods of erecting; and furnishing a Loft for Pigeons. 9. Remarks and Observations on the Diet proper for Pigeons. 10. The Diseases Pigeons are liable to, with the best Remedies for each Distemper, as practised by the most experienced Fanciers. 11. General Remarks on the Distinction between Pigeon-Fanciers and Pigeon-Keepers; concluding with some Advice worthy the Attention of both. 12. Instructive and useful Intelligence respecting the Generation and Incubation of Pigeons. Being an useful, instructive, and sure Guide to Fanciers in every Sphere of Life, comprehending all that is necessary to be known in the whole Fancy of Pigeons. By Daniel Girton, Of the County of Bucks. Embellished with a set of Engravings elegantly executed from Drawings accurately taken from the Life.
Girton, Daniel.Date: [1790?]