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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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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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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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To the Right honorable and honorable the trustees of the linen and hempen manufactures in Ireland, This report of the state of the linen markets of the province of Ulster, is respectfully offered, by John Greer.
Greer, John, inspector-general for the province of Ulster.Date: 1784]- Books
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To the nobility and gentry of Munster, the following observations are humbly submitted.
Stephenson, Robert, linen manufacturer.Date: 1784]- Books
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Informations to the people of Ireland, concerning the linen trade of Spain, Portugal, and the Spanish West Indies. By C. S. merchant. Published with the allowance and at the expence of the Linen Board.
C. S., merchant.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Abstract of the linen statutes of Ireland, now in force.
Ireland.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Act of the councill of trade anent the right making and measuring of linen cloath, and discharging the exportation of lint and linen yarn &c.
Council of Trade (Scotland)Date: Anno Dom, 1706