Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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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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Talent, tech and visual art
Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?
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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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Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The laws of Jamaica, pass'd by the governours, council and assembly in that island, and confirm'd by the Crown.
Jamaica.Date: 1716- Books
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Histoire de la Jamaı̈que, traduite de l'anglois. Par M.***, ancien officier de dragons. ...
Leslie, Charles, of Jamaica.Date: 1751- Books
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A descriptive account of a part of the island of Jamaica: with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves. By William Beckford, Esq. author of Remarks on the situation of Negroes in Jamaica. In two volumes.
Beckford, William, -1799.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Hints for a general view of the agricultural state of the Parish of Saint James, in the Island of Jamaica. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By Nicholas Robson, land surveyor of the Parish of St. James.
Robson, Nicholas.Date: 1796