Stories
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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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Succumbing to stimming in dance
As a child, Susanna Dye felt ashamed of their need to stim, but has found a way to incorporate these repetitive movements into their creative practice as a dancer and facilitator.
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How to thrive in lockdown
Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.
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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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Observations on the use of opium in diseases supposed to be owing to morbid irritability. By Alexander Grant, senior surgeon of his Majesty's Military Hospitals during the late war in North America.
Grant, Alexander, -1817.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Disputatio physiologica, inauguralis, Arterias omnes, et Venarum Partem, Irritabilitate praeditas esse. Quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Ricardus Dennison, Anglo-Britannus, Societ. Med. Soc. Hon. Prid. Id. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Dennison, Ricardus.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explained. By J. Hill, M.D. In a letter to Linnæus.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd. By J. Hill. In a letter to C. Linnæus, ...
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1757- Books
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Specimen inaugurale, de causis irritabilitatem fibrarum motricium augentibus. Quod, annuente summo numine, ex-auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiæ Edinurgenæ Præfecti; nec non amplissmi Senatus Academici consensu, et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicæ decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medecina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Woodville, anglo-Britannus. Soc. Med. Edin. Soc. Prid. id. Sept. hora locque solitis.
Woodville, William, 1752-1805.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]