Stories
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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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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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture, which texts are now added in the end of the booke. Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people. And that many heathenish customes, originally have been unwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes / By Thomas Godwyn. B.D.
Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.Date: 1641- Books
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Pirḳe rabi Eliʻezer : hu rabi Eliʻezer ben horḳanus ha-niḳra rabi Eliʻezer ha-gadol ... be-mitsṿat u-ve-hutsʼat ha-vaḥur ha-neḥemad Mosheh ben a[doni] a[vi] Yitsḥaḳ Gomesh Meshḳiṭah.
Date: 5468 [1708]- Pictures
Jews at a service in a synagogue. Engraving, 1741, by G. Scotin II after H. Gravelot.
Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773.Date: 1730-1739Reference: 2851040i- Books
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Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.
Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.Date: 1631- Books
Sefer ṭevaḥ ṿe-hakhen ... : kol dine sheḥiṭot u-vediḳot ... / mo[renu] ha-[rav] Yosef Ḥayyim Ḳaro.
Caro, Joseph Ḥayyim ben Isaac, 1800-1895.Date: 5619 [1859]