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The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
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Vivid nights, dream-filled days
Each night, intense and memorable dreams create another life for Katie da Cunha Lewin. Find out how her waking and dreaming selves have become enmeshed, allowing her powerful self-knowledge.
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Breaking the rules of online dating
Artists are taking on the trolls of Tinder and the gremlins of Grindr to question the limits of online dating.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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An advertisement for a maker of glass instruments: showing thermometers, hour-glasses, and barometers. Engraving.
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An angel in a large pot holding an hour-glass surrounded by beautiful countryside - advertising a calming potion. Aquatint.
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Watching the hour-glass ...
Chalmers, Stephen, 1880-1935.Date: 1913- Books
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A select collection of epitaphs: carefully collected from the tombstones of the most eminent personages in England, Scotland and Ireland. To which are added many That are celebrated for their Oddity and Quaintness of Expression.
Kill-Care.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face in the background. Mezzotint by Jan van der Bruggen after D. Teniers II, 167-.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [167?-?]Reference: 600083i