Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A letter to Mr. Foster on the subject of heresy. By Henry Stebbing, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, and preacher to the Honourable Society of Gray's-Inn.
Stebbing, Henry, 1687-1763.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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A dissertation on the nature of heresy. By a Lover of Truth and Peace.
Nation, William, active 1731.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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Mr. Whiston's defence of himself, from the articles objected to him by Dr. Pelling; before the Court of Delegates, in a cause of heresy. To which is prefix'd the articles themselves.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1715- Books
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A Score of questions submitted to all honest clergymen, gentlemen and others.
Date: 1715?]- Books
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An antidote against a new heresy; or, an ingenious confutation of the relief scheme. By a friend of the secession.
Boston, Michael, 1747-1785.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]