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The beautiful language of bookplates
Don’t judge a book only by its cover. Take a look inside, where decorative bookplates reveal stories that cross continents and centuries.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The history of the English language; deduced from its origin, and traced through its different stages and revolutions: Being very interesting for Persons ignorant of the Infant State of their own Country and those Revolutions; And For the Benefit of those who aspire to the Perfect Knowledge of their Mother Tongue. By V. J. Peyton, Author of the Elememts of the English - Language.
Peyton, V. J.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
Papers on various subjects
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044/3/1-47Part of: Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Leach-Leslie
Date: 1682-1912Reference: MS.8891- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890