Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Anno vicesimo sexto Georgii II. Regis. An Act for the settling and ascertaining the fees to be taken by clerks to Justices of the Peace. ...
Great Britain.Date: 1753]- Books
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An abstract of twelve Acts of Parliament. Containing I. An Act for the better quallification of justices. II. An Act for preventing frivolous and vexatious Arrests. III. An Act for improving Tillage of Land. IV. An Act for making Process in Courts of Equity effectual against Persons who abscond and cannot be served therewith, or refuse to appear. V. An Act for the Benefit of Landlords and Tenants. VI. The Law of Tithes. Vii. An Act for the Relief of Parishes, and other Plaees, from such Charges as may arise from Bastard Children born within the same. Viii. An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. IX. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Irish Stuffs, &c. X. An Act for repealing an Act for laying a Duty upon all Compound Waters, &c. XI. An Act for the better regulating Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, &c. XII. An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land-tax for the service of the year 1733.
Great Britain.Date: 1733- Books
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The Universal officer of justice. Containing, the general power and authority by law, of the several officers and ministers following, viz. 1. Of justices of peace. 2. Clerks of the peace. 3. Of custos rotulorum. 4. Of commissioners of hackney-coaches. 5. - - of hawkers and pedlars. 6. - - of the wine licence, &c. 7. Of mayors and bailiffs of towns. 8. Of clerks of markets and tool-takers. 9. Os sheriffs of counties 10. Of under-sheriffs, and their bailiffs, &c. 11. Of coroners. 12. Of constables &c. 13. Of church-wardens and sidesmen. 14. Of vestry-men. 15. Of overseers of the poor. 16. And surveyors of the highways. The whole being collected from all the books our common and statute laws written upon the subjects and render'd generally useful to all sorts of people.
Date: 1731- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: continued to the end of the session - 1793. ... The third edition. By a country magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: 1794-99- Books
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An appendix to the seventeenth edition of Dr. Burn's justice of the peace, and parish office. Containing All the Acts of Parliament and Adjudged Cases which relate to the Office of a Justice of the Peace, from 32 Geo. III. to the present Time. By John Burn, Esq. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland.
Burn, John, 1744?-1802.Date: [1795]