Stories
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Another bag open'd. Tune. - "Wednesbury cocking."
Date: 1795?]- Books
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[The mushroom blues. A song. Tune - The black joke.]
Date: 1780]- Books
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The Fox-chace or, The loyal blues. Tune - and a hunting we will go.
Date: 1784]- Books
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Pro and con: being an impartial abstract of the principal publications on the subject of a legislative union, between Great Britain and Ireland; in which the arguments for and against that measure, by the following writers, are fairly contrasted; viz. Earl of Clare, Lord Auckland, Lord Minto, RT. Hon. MR. Addington, RT. Hon. MR. Pitt, RT. Hon. MR. Dundas, RT. Hon. MR. Douglas, Dean Tucker, MR. WM. Smith, DR. Clarke, MR. Peele, DR. M'kenna, Earl Of Farnham, RT. Hon. MR. Foster, Sir J. W. Jervis, BT. MR. Spencer, MR. Bousfield, MR. Edgeworth, MR. Rudd, MR. Goold, MR. Taaffe, MR. Weld, MR. Sheery, DR. Drennan: Also, arguments for and against, &c. - Cease your funning, - Impartial view of the causes leading to, &c. - Tit for tat, - and many other anonymous writers on this subject. By a searcher after truth.
Searcher After Truth.Date: 1800- Books
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The watermen and lightermen's case, in relation to the bill before this Honourable House, for the explanation of former laws made, touching wherrymen and watermen, and joyning the lightermen to them, and providing one good government for both.
Date: 1700 - 1705?]