Stories
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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
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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.
Catalogue
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Essay on hypocrisy. By the late Rev. Mr Alexander Carmichael. Originally printed, 1730.
Carmichael, Alexander, -approximately 1676.Date: 1798?]- Books
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To the people of Ireland.
Atticus.Date: 1800]- Books
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Edmund Elys his second letter to Dr. Kennet.
Elys, Edmund, approximately 1634-approximately 1707.Date: 1704]- Books
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The grand disappointment, or, a description of the several figures, the pope, Pretender, cardinals, Jesuits and fryers, that were designed to disturb the government, being seized and apprehended, by Her Majesty's Grenadiers on Saturday morning the 17th instant at Two of the Clock, in Angel-Court, Drury-Lane, the Persons Names they were design'd to Represent; the Manner they were to be Carried. And a Description of the whole Procession, as it was to have been Conducted from White-Hall to the Royal-Exchange, and the Speeches that were to be made.
Date: 1711- Books
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A letter to the Lords upon the matter of the Occasional Bill.
Stephens, William, -1718.Date: 1704]