Stories
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers : with minutes of evidence, and an appendix.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers.Date: [1834]- Books
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The patriot. Addressed to the electors of Great Britain.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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A bill for making the exemplification of the last will of the Right Honourable Richard late Earl of Burlington and Cork, deceased, Evidence in all Courts of Law and Equity in Great Britain and Ireland.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1756]- Books
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Reasons humbly offer'd to the Parliament, Upon The present Posture of Affairs, Particularly with respect to Don Carlos's Introduction into Italy, and the Negotiations of a new Treaty of Peace, between the Courts of Great-Britain and Vienna.
Date: 1731- Books
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A brief statement of opinions, given in the Board of Commissioners, under the sixth article of the Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, with Great Britain: with an appendix, containing articles of the treaties with Great-Britain; --the commissions under the said sixth article of the treaty of amity; --and references to opinions delivered by judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States: by one of the commissioners under the said sixth article.
Date: 1800