Stories
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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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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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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Considerations on the Annual Million Bill, and on the real and imaginary properties of a sinking fund.
Burney, James, 1750-1821.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Addressed to Members of Parliament, &c. A sketch on the Chancellor's budget Is here humbly offered, December, 1795. -
Holmes, William, active 1795-1800.Date: 1795]- Books
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These are the times that try men's souls! A letter to John Frost. A prisoner in Newgate. By Henry Yorke.
Yorke, Henry Redhead, 1772-1813.Date: [1793]- Books
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The interest of Great Britain consider'd; In an essay upon Wool, Tin and Leather: Proving by Instances of Fact, That the Misfortunes which has attended this Kingdom for above four hundred Years last past, has been chiefly Occasion'd by the Neglect of our Commerce; and that the Ballance of Power in Christendom, is by the Ballance of Trade. With some Remarks upon the Conceptions of Sir Josiah Child. Written by - J. B.
Blanch, John, 1649 or 1650-Date: 1707- Books
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Impartial reflections upon the present crisis; comprised in four essays upon the economy of the present stock of corn. - The assize of bread. - Tithes. - And a general system of inclosures. With an appendix, containing the system of inclosures introduced in 1732 by Arthur Dobbs, Esq. In the Irish Parliament. By Hervey, Viscount Mountmorres, F. R. S. and M. R. I. A.
Mountmorres of Castlemorres, Hervey Redmond Morres, Viscount, 1745 or 1746-1797.Date: 1796