Stories
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The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
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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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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Sotheby, William (1757-1833), author
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7655/131Part of: Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Archives and manuscripts
Personal material
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6137Part of: Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
Management: a comedy. In five acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Frederick Reynolds.
Reynolds, Frederick, 1764-1841.Date: 1800