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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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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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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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the year 1619 to 1734. To which is added, a discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great - Britain, in Respect to Neutral Nations. By the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, Secretary at War. The whole being a supplement to A collection of treaties, between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Revolution, in 1688. In Two Volumes.
Great Britain.Date: [1781]- Books
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The duty and powers of justices of peace, in this part of Great-Britain called Scotland. With an appendix concerning weights and measures. By William Forbes ...
Forbes, William.Date: 1707-08- Books
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An Act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the Act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorise and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments.
Great Britain.Date: 1776- 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: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- 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: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament Of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To Which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]