Stories
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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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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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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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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.
Catalogue
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Chairman of the Medical Research Council : introductory hearing / House of Commons. Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology.Date: 2007- Books
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Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccine Board: : with the minutes of evidence and an appendix. / Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 28 August 1833.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Vaccine Board.Date: 1833- Books
Legacy - Parliament 2010-15 : ninth report of session 2014-15 : report, together with formal minutes relating to the report / House of Commons, Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and TechnologyDate: 2015- Books
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Research funding : oral evidence / House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education and Skills Committee.Date: 2006- Books
Marine science / House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and TechnologyDate: 2013