Stories
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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An Act to enable Her Majesty to grant the scite [sic] of the Castle of Exon (parcel of her dutchy of Cornwall) for ninety nine years, for the use and benefit of the county of Devon.
Great Britain.Date: 1711]- Books
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Great Britain. Sovereign (1714-1727 : George I)Date: 1725]- Books
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Anno regni Annæ Reginæ Magn. Britann. Franciae, & Hiberniae, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty fifth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1710. in the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. being the First Session of this present Parliament. And from thence continued by several Prorogations, to the Seventh Day of December, 1711. being the Second Session of this present Parliament. And from thence continued by several Prorogations, to the Ninth Day of April, 1713. being the Third Session of this present Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1735 [1744]- Books
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Copy of a bill presented by the Marquis of Graham to the House of Commons, in May 1782, with the intended amendments thereon, for the better ordering the Militia forces in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
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An Act for settling the precedence of the most excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, of the Elector her son, and of the Electoral Prince the Duke of Cambridge.
Great Britain.Date: 1711 [i.e. 1712]]