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 new system of horsemanship: from the French of Monsieur Bourgelat. By Richard Berenger, Esq;
Bourgelat, Claude, 1712-1779.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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Annals of horsemanship: containing accounts of accidental experiments, and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful: communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. author of the Academy for Grown Horsemen, together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius. And now first published, by the editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen. Illustrated with cuts by the most eminent artists.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The art of riding; or, horsemanship made easy: exemplified by rules drawn from nature and experience. By J.L. Jackson, Esq;
Jackson, J. L., Esq.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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By permission, for one week only. This and to-morrow evening, Mr. Perry, and his troop from the Royal Circus, London, intend going through their astonishing feats of activity, consisting of horsemanship ... At the circus, Greyhound Yard, Cambridge. ...
Perry, Mr., of the Royal Circus.Date: 1795?]- Books
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Markhams faithfull farrier : wherein the depth of his skill is layd open in all those principall and approued secrets of horsemanship, which the author neuer published, but hath kept in his brest, and hath beene the glory of his practise.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1630