Stories
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Dating on dopamine
Drug treatment for Parkinson’s can come with an unwanted side serving of compulsive behaviour, as Pete Langman discovered. Read about his dating journey in a dopamine cloud.
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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Lying low for lockdown and beyond
For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Gambling
Date: c. 1970sReference: PP/MXG/D.4Part of: Glatt, Max Meier (1912-2002)- Books
Gambling : a review of the literature and its implications for policy and research / by D. B. Cornish.
Cornish, Derek B. (Derek Blaikie), 1939-Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
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Tsimshian Gambling Sticks
Date: 1919Reference: WA/HMM/SJ/28Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Gambling.Date: 1978- Books
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A letter from the grave, communicated in a vision By Mr. Holman's late servant. Addressed to servants of all denominations. Exposing the gross Impositions of illegal Lottery Chances, and laying open the iniquitous odds, tricks, artifices, and frauds of private Gambling Offices, which still carry on, in defiance of Law, the ruinous and abominable business of Lottery Insurance. With introductory observations, Addressed to all Families that keep Servants, particularly in the City of London. With also an Address to the Servants themselves, stating particulars relative to the Vision. By the editor of the above letter.
Date: M.DCC,XCII. [1792]