Stories
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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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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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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The history of the life and reign of the valiant Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward the First of England, Son to King Henry the Third; and his Princess Eleonora. On which history, is founded a play, written by Mr. Thomson, call'd, Edward and Eleonora; Now in Rehearsal at the Theatre in Covent-Garden. Extracted from the best historians. With a geographical description of that Prince's expedition to the Holy-Land, &c.
Date: 1739- Books
An entertainment under the immediate patronage of their most gracious majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in aid of the British Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem at His Majesty's Theatre : presented under the direction of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, on Tuesday, July 5th, 1904 / programme... by Charles J.W. Cull.
Cull, Charles J. W.Date: 1904- Books
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Richard the Third. A tragedy. Taken from the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales, with the successions, lines, acts, and issues of the English monarchs, from Ivlivs Cæsar, to ovr most, gratious soueraigne King Iames / [John Speed].
Speed, John, 1552?-1629.Date: 1650- Books
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Theory of the fine arts : an introductory lecture delivered in the classical theatre of King's College, London, May 24th, 1844 / by William Dyce.
Dyce, William, 1806-1864.Date: 1844