Stories
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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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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Review of codeine containing analgesic medicines available over the counter in the light of recommendations made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on misuse of medicines - response by PAGB" [Proprietary Association of Great Britain]
Date: June 2009Reference: PP/IDD/C/4/5Part of: Iddon, Brian- Books
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The patriot: addressed to the electors of Great Britain, by a member of the House of Commons. Containing a dissertation on the proposed reform of Parliamentary representation. The advantages and disadvantages of annual elections. A copy of the Test, intended to be Proposed to Candidates at the ensuing Election. A concise review of Mr. Pitt's administration. With dispassionate remarks on the supposed consequences of admitting a majority of Mr. Fox's friends into the new Parliament.
Member of the House of Commons.Date: [1790]- Books
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An address to the general deputation for redress of public grievances; through the person of its president: - being a full inquiry into the rectitude, expediency, and attainableness of the parliamentary reform proposed by the committee of the county of York, in their late instructions to their deputies, and their address to the electors of Great Britain; together with a similar investigation of another plan: humbly submitted by one of the people.
One of the People.Date: 1781]- Books
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Address of the Bristol Constitutional Society for a Parliamentary Reform, to the people of Great-Britain. April 14, 1794.
Bristol Constitutional Society for a Parliamentary Reform.Date: 1794]- Books
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Address from the London Corresponding Society to the inhabitants of Great Britain, on the Subject of a parliamentary reform.
London Corresponding Society.Date: 1792]