Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Abigal's lamentation for the loss of Secretary H-----y. Translated from the Greek of Homer.
Date: 1708]- Books
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The lamentation of Britannia for the two-and-twenty months imprisonment of John Wilkes, Esq. in the King's-Bench Prison.
Date: [1768]- Books
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The church militant, or the Whigs triumphant, being the Ch----- of En----ds lamentation for the contempt of her memorial. An iambick poem
Date: 1705]- Books
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Monody to the memory of a young lady who died in child-bed. By an afflicted husband.
Shaw, Cuthbert, 1739 1771.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The living elegy: or, Dunton's letter (being a word of comfort) to his few creditors: with the character of a summer-friend. To which is added, the lives, religion, and honesty of the Moderator, Wandering Spy, Rehearsal, London C-d (alias post) Interloping Whipster, and the other attachers of my person and goods.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: Printed in the Year 1706